Shock the pig

[dArKeR]

Indonesia workers electrocute a pig before injecting drugs at a farm on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Indonesia became the first known country yesterday to destroy pigs in its effort to contain the rapid spread of bird flu.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/photo/2005/07/25/2005039614

[jeff30997]

1. Oops. I thought this thread was about Rove...

[dArKeR]

5. Close but no cigar

[babylonsister]

2. Pigs & Bird Flu does not compute. Explain please. n/t

[madrchsod]

3. birds and pigs

are raised together in asia. the birds infect the pigs then the pigs infect the human population.

[bemildred]

4. Oh yeah, that will work. nt

[dArKeR]

6. Indonesia's pig-killing lambasted

EASY TARGET?: Health experts are stumped by Jakarta's extermination campaign, saying there is no evidence the swine are infected with avian flu

AP , RANCA IYUH, INDONESIA
Saturday, Jul 30, 2005,Page 4

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When government workers in white anti-contamination suits descended on Ceng Kim's farm to slaughter his pigs, claiming they were infected with the bird flu virus that killed three people nearby, he hid inside his house.
He couldn't bear to watch, but the rest of Indonesia saw the dramatic images on television that night: Squealing pigs electrocuted one by one and tossed into a fire.

"My pigs didn't kill anyone," said Kim. "But if the government says they're sick, what can I do?"

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/30/2003265643