Overcrowding and overuse of vaccines could be the reason for the mutation of a powerful new super flu and Smithfield’s super efficient factory farms could be the breeding ground.  This isn’t the first time swine flu has broken out at a Smithfield’s farm.  As recently as 2007, an outbreak at one of the company’s Romanian farms cost the company $13 million.

Smithfield chairman Joseph Luter once was quoted as saying that all of Easter Europe, especially Romania, should become the “Iowa of Europe”.  Does this mean we’ll be seeing swine flu outbreaks centered around Iowa and Romania next?

Companies like Smithfield treat animals as if they were non-living, non-feeling beings.  They obviously don’t think too highly of the people they sell their product to, or the people that live nearby their factories.  The best way to stop companies like this is to hit them where it hurts.  Stop buying pork that was raised on these mass-scale factory farms.  My family stopped eating pork for the last year and we feel healthier without all those extra chemicals in our bodies.