Shwepps! King ***holes of the Universe

Regular internets spelunker, Michael Harper sends in this chance stumble.....



update: As Burro Hall notes below, they took the post down; here's a permalinked copy:

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Gustavo Arellano on the Swine Flu!

Smithfield Foods, Corporate Mother of Butterball, Armour, etc and the Scourge of Factory Forming: Mexican Swine Flu and the Smithfield Flu

A listener of Gustavo Arellano's KPFK radio show sends in this message and this link as a follow-up to our discussion of the origins of our present might-be-pandemic swine flu:

>Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:58:09 -0700
>From: "________" <____________@gmail.com>
>Subject: Back to Pork's Dirty Secret: The nation's top hog producer is also one of America's worst polluters
>To: memo@sdsu.edu, garellano@ocweekly.com
>
> Professor Nericcio and Gustavo,
> I'm listening to you via the internet stream off of KPCC. The
> Smithfield Foods industrial pork production lines are also in the
> United States. Hope the FCC doesn't catch up with you about the four letters
> words from todays show. best,
> A listener

> Attached is an article from Rolling Stone on Smithfield's hog
> productions in the US.

Rasquache Humor in a Jugular Vein...

The Latest from Mexico City and Daniel Hernandez: Flu Recession in Mexico

Monstruously Scapegoated "Mexicans"

The usual suspects, Mexicans, this time guilty for consorting with swine, and, via the familiar Nazi-spin machine that made Jews into vermin, "poof":

Mexicans = Disease

Of course, we ("Mexicans, that is), were always the floating signifier of dis-ease, dis-comfort, of fear!