[Peace-discuss] political correctness for pigs and flu viruses

[Jenifer Cartwright]

The name change is defensible in that we don't/can't get this flu from eating pork products, and calling it swine flu is misleading in that respect and can do (and probably already has done) terrible thing$ to the pork industry -- a lotta workers affected across the globe even if some of them do work for factory farms, ugh. Calling it by its official letters and numbers won't do it, either, not catchy enuff... Pretty sad on top of everything else.
 --Jenifer 

--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] political correctness for pigs and flu viruses
To: "peace discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 9:12 PM





Possibly one of the silliest things I've read about in a while ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu_name

 Ricky Baldwin


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