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An impressive Viking hoard of jewellery has made a father and son metal-detector team £1m, after being bought by two British museums.

The find, which is the ‘largest and most important’ since 1840, was found in a field in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in January 2007. It had been buried there for more than 1,000 years.

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McClatchy points out that 6 0f the 8 genetic segments in the current swine flu come from a 1990′s outbreak on a large North Carolina pig farm: 

The new H1N1 influenza virus that continues to spread through the U.S. has ancestry in a swine flu outbreak that first struck a North Carolina hog farm more than 10 years ago, according to scientists studying the strain’s genetic makeup….

Two of the segments, [Raul Rabadan, a Columbia University scientist] said, appear to come from Eurasia and are somewhat mysterious in origin. The other six can be traced to the North American pig outbreak, which turned out to include a combination of avian, swine and human flu…

“Pigs are amazing mixing bowls for creating new viruses,” said Bob Martin, senior officer at the Pew Environmental Group. Martin was executive director of the study.

“It’s a matter of when, not if,” Martin said of the creation of new viruses on factory hog farms. “The structure of the system is the problem.”

The industrial pig farming industry, of course, as well as scientists on the payroll, all swear that industrial pig farming is safe, and that the viruses would happen no matter how the pigs are raised. This is untrue (see this, this and this).

If the factory meat industry is not forced to clean up its act or shut down, then some new, lethal cocktail of viruses will eventually be unleashed from one of these farms which does create a lethal pandemic for humans.

Just as the financial collapse resulted from ignoring the repeated warnings of those who described what was really going on, we will eventually be brought to our knees by a virus incubated at a factory meat facility unless we change the way we raise meat.

Afterword: The FDA approved cloned meat in January of 2008, and no one really knows whether or not cloned meat is already on the market (it probably is).

Cloned meat production, along with genetically modified foods which can disrupt entire insect populations and cause other problems, are additional examples of the fact that the food industry will create more and more dangerous frankenfoods – and disease-creating facilities – unless the public stands up and demands safe food production and real food.
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industrial hog farms are disease incubators

For example, Scientific American wrote an article yesterday asking:

Is so-called swine flu really just another environmental problem associated with factory farming?

After all, such large operations keep the animals in close confinement, dope them with antibiotics to keep them alive in the crowded conditions and create vast pools and piles of waste—all good ways to promote the spread of any disease.

Other health threats, such as antibiotic-resistant strains of staphylococcus aureus, have emerged from pig farms as well.

Nevertheless, this H1N1 strain has not yet been found in the pigs near La Gloria, nor is it clear how it would have jumped from the factory farm to little Edgar.

But what is clear thanks to the hard work of virologists is that this particular strain of flu got its genetic start on U.S. hog farms back in the 1990s. That’s according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. How the virus jumped from pigs to humans may have nothing to do with factory farms, but confined animal feeding operations helped to breed the disease.

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A theory about the swine flu which is gaining rapid support is that the flu was spread by flies swarming around the hog manure ponds at the giant Granjas Carrol hog farm in Vera Cruz, Mexico. Granjas Carrol raises 950,000 hogs per year at the facility. These industrial-scale hog farms – where pigs are jammed together so tightly that they can barely turn around.

There are so many of them that they produce many tons of manure, which is just dumped into giant manure ponds.

This is the Wall Street of hog farming. On both Wall Street and at giant meat production farms, the hogs feed at the public trough. With the hog farms, like Wall Street:

• A couple of giant companies dominated the landscape

• Regulators allowed the companies to run amok

• The profits were privatized, and the losses socialized. In the case of the hog farms, the profits from the mega-farms were pocketed by the companies, while the costs of the swine flu epidemic will be borne by the taxpayers

As one blog commentator wrote:

Agribusiness needs to be held accountable. They are following the same rules as bankers; keep the profits and dump losses (in the form of mad cow or now swine flu) on the public. Factor in a few million dead and maybe locally produced food from small farms is not so expensive after all.

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A pair of Robonova-1 kit robots teamed up with “Chi” (Naoki Nokubo) of the defunct pop-idol trio Shūchishin (羞恥心) for a special performance on Fuji TV’s “The Best House 1-2-3″ variety show last night. (Watch it.)

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