Farmers worry `swine flu' nickname may sink profit

[Sequoia]

Like the virus itself, the name "swine flu" is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation's $15 billion pork industry, that's a disaster.

It doesn't seem to matter that the strain may not come entirely from pigs and cannot be spread by eating pork. Hog prices are already dropping as financial markets worry people will have second thoughts about buying "the other white meat."

"It's killing our markets," said Francis Gilmore, 72, who runs a 600-hog operation in Perry, outside Des Moines, and worries his small business could be ruined by the crisis. "Where they got the name, I just don't know."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/28/national/a132857D62.DTL

[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) I'm still healthy and happy, eating pork chops, bacon, ham, sausage.

Fuck the panic-mongers.

EDIT: Think I'll sign up for the bacon-of-the-month club next month.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Can I have your watch when you die?

hyperlipidemia
One entry found.

Main Entry:
hy·per·lip·id·emia
Pronunciation:
\-ˌli-pə-ˈdē-mē-ə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin
Date:
1961

: the presence of excess fat or lipids in the blood

[BlooInBloo]

4. hahahaah!

[Maru Kitteh]

7. I just realized, I should have included a *

*line taken from "The Three Amigos."

:-)

[Bozita]

5. pssst ... Here's a link for you

http://bacontoday.com/

[Maru Kitteh]

2. He doesn't know where they got the name?

Good God. He DESERVES to go out of business. He's dangerous stupid.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. From what we have seen round these parts

you are that surprised?

I am not

That said I think it is too late, notwithstanding the effort of the Israeli Director of Public Health to change the name since it was NOT kosher (not shitting here)

Usually they go by geography so there is a chance that they might start calling it the NORTH AMERICAN Flue or the Mexican Flu, which makes sense given we called the 57 strain the Hong Kong Flu, or the Spanish Flu (which was traced to the US, but that is another story)

[Maru Kitteh]

8. Not surprised at all. Except for the Kosher part. That's not stupid, it's batshit crazy.

How can WORDS be Kosher?

Ugh.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Netanyahu gave the health minister to

a bat shit crazy nutter from the Torah party

My excuses to nutters

And yes, he will properly cite religious law

:-)

I was tempted to send an email asking if we should start praying and giving burnt offerings