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Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs
The New York Times ^ | September 19, 2009 | MICHAEL SLACKMAN

Posted on 09/20/2009 1:30:27 AM PDT by snowsislander


CAIRO — It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the president.

“The problem is clear in the streets,” said Haitham Kamal, a spokesman for the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs. “There is a strict and intensive effort now from the state to address this issue.”

But the crisis should not have come as a surprise.

When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring — in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu — it was warned the city would be overwhelmed with trash.

The pigs used to eat tons of organic waste. Now the pigs are gone and the rotting food piles up on the streets of middle-class neighborhoods like Heliopolis and in the poor streets of communities like Imbaba.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cairo; egypt; flu; h1n1; influenza; mhmmdnsm09202009; pigs; swine; swineflu; thebeautyofislam
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Clearly, Mr. Mubarak's ill-conceived plan to to kill all of the pigs has not worked out well.
1 posted on 09/20/2009 1:30:27 AM PDT by snowsislander
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And people who still throw their trash into the street after all these centuries feel entitled to rule the world.........

"We don't have enough pigs and goats running loose in our cities, so how are we going to deal with our trash?!?!"

2 posted on 09/20/2009 1:41:26 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby (Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
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Yep, the best thing that every happened to Baghdad was the clean running water and the sewer system American Troops installed, they are now the envy of the entire middle east


3 posted on 09/20/2009 1:53:36 AM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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I lived in Cairo for years and pigs are an improvement!


4 posted on 09/20/2009 1:56:13 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: snowsislander

Sounds like an ideal situation to grow the plague.

And if plague broke out in Cairo, would anyone really give a damn?


6 posted on 09/20/2009 1:58:49 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84 (FUBO))
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“Yep, the best thing that every happened to Baghdad was the clean running water and the sewer system American Troops installed, they are now the envy of the entire middle east”

I understand ME countries vary in wealth, but WTF, why don’t more pay to put in their own doggone systems? Heard the glory of Dubai has sewer lines to nowhere and poop trucks have to empty the septic tanks, then drive far away, queue in line for hours to tip the load?... Boggles the mind.


7 posted on 09/20/2009 2:00:49 AM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: snowsislander

This is our future?


8 posted on 09/20/2009 2:05:06 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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Sounds like modern Americans. No money for necessities, plenty of money for luxuries.


9 posted on 09/20/2009 2:06:11 AM PDT by pennyfarmer (Your Socialist Beat our Liberal)
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To: snowsislander

“belatedly”...yeah my foot. Of course, this little move wasn’t so much about pigs, it was about wiping out the Coptic Christians in Egypt who farm them.


10 posted on 09/20/2009 2:08:22 AM PDT by Claud
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On cat purges at the time of the Black death:

“Since many equated the Black Death with God’s wrath against sin, and that cats were often considered in league with the Devil thanks to their aloof and independent nature, cats were killed in masses. Had this bias toward cats not existed, local rodent populations could have been kept down, lessening the spread of plague-infected fleas from host to host.”

Hard not to see the same bias toward pigs in the middle east, with possibly the same results.


11 posted on 09/20/2009 2:11:47 AM PDT by B.Lyle
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Let them eat pork.


12 posted on 09/20/2009 2:24:46 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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Right up there with Mao’s campaign against the sparrows.


13 posted on 09/20/2009 3:00:13 AM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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Looks like dogs, sheep, and rams are valiantly trying to take on the garbage.


14 posted on 09/20/2009 3:09:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Love me, love my cat.)
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They killed the wrong Pigs....looks like the NYslTimes have finally found the perfect faux journalist,
Michael SLACKMAN.


15 posted on 09/20/2009 3:22:30 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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ISLAM = TRASH
Why the surprise?
16 posted on 09/20/2009 3:59:48 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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Oh, the citizens of those fine ME countries have most liekly been taxed for world class water and sewer systems...several times. And like much of the third world, it's probably ended up in some politician's cousin's pocket.
17 posted on 09/20/2009 4:27:04 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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Basic infrastructure, missing. Meanwhile just like on the Titanic, the band plays on. Don’t we all just love the politics of unintended consequences. In case anyone has forgotten, the unintended consequences are MAN made.


18 posted on 09/20/2009 4:57:06 AM PDT by wita
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To: snowsislander

Didn’t Chairman Mao order the killing of all pet cats. The rat population exploded.


19 posted on 09/20/2009 5:41:34 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: snowsislander

‘Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.


20 posted on 09/20/2009 5:48:08 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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