"Its called swine flue for good reasons!"

I suppose you are right Yabby. Afterall, the virus is part human and part pig, not unlike some two legged swine i know :)

Lamb substitute for pork Huh! show me a lamb roast with crackling, or baaacon and then you might have something to argue with.

Well PF, as you know, I don't often quote religious books lol, buuut,
we do have the old holy books claiming that pigs carry diseases and
should not be eaten. Whom am I to argue with the powers above?

Crackling and bacon? I'll let all that fat go to your hips, not
mine :)

"Yes Jewely, point taken. I guess its a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't, and the game of russian rulet, i guess we,ll just have to play. Everything that this land has protected for the last 100 million years will just be riddled with all sorts of the nastiest creatures like the tasmanian starfish etc its just a "put up with the by-product" so to speak. Can you see where it goes from there? Ok. we just keep on gambling."

Now Evo, this cynical thinking will do no good. Without a crystal ball we cannot look back (or does some other rock look back?) and know if the earth would have trucked along quite nicely without us or if perhaps we have already unwittingly saved life on earth with our presence.

Of course I guess this is where Russian Rulet does enter the picture.
What we do now matters, I'm not sure humans really deep down do believe we matter enough to make a difference.

But I wonder off topic. Surely a Swine Flu cannot be discussed without really talking about how we treat our animals.

This is Australia, I believe it's rather large. Why is there anything other than happy animals living as nature intended right up until the point they are served with a variety of sauces?

Something amusing I found on my wonderings, well amusing until a few brain cells start firing off.

http://www.themeatrix.com/

""Probably because droughts and floods bum them out big time aye""
"Yes you are very right. But, what about the many other businesses that rely on farmers for thier very existance. Why don't they get relief! This is my point here!"

Isn't relief passed on? I mean if a farmer gets "relief" don't they in turn pay for their goods and services?

"Because as a nation we massively over produce."

Isn't this how a country makes money?

"Finally, of course I can't guarantee everyone will do the right thing. But I can almost guarantee we don't grow our livestock, wash our cloths, urinate and empty our sewage, garbage, educate our kids and process our food all within the confines of our own back yard."

My neighbours do. Sorry slipped out.

"Oh, did I mention letting the dogs in to do the cleaning up once we're finnished!"

Which reminds me, I have a sick dog, no don't worry he'll be okay but this lead me to go places I normally do not venture and got some advice by a really nice person and I mentioned this site and was told to say this exactly:

Break a leg from Gertrude Yabby
Hello to our Prime Minister in waiting

if you cant see how media is beating up on the big scare[even going so far as having a ghoul flash into our faces a la the optus add abouve this very post..lol..and still you cant see they are playing with you all]

the issue is a non issue,
http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=1699
in fact so much of a non issue one needs wonder what they dont want us talking about that we do talk about swine flue, thats not decendant from swine because its a manufactured flue[far milder than the normal flue],

not vectored via swine, despite the pathetic attempts to beat it up by the past its glory 60 minute crew, who hang the disease off a mex-kid[still living kid]..[being less than one 5 th swine], the h1n1 gene covers many other harmless flues,less that 7 confirmed deaths and one in usa.. the topic is so pathetic,..all the blogger brigade can find to blog is meatstuff

go ahead and ignore the cure was released a full two weeks prior to the first claimed'victim'.
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8859#140446
...this didnt stop the pathetic 60 minute reporting spruiking up a vacine..,they can inject it into all of you in 6 mths..

i recomend you to take it..[its the only way to catch it]..going by the usual need to get some poor preople to test these things,[re polio vacine creating aids via africa..it will be in time revealed it was tested in mexico..

but keep on beating up with the distractions,..soon it will be compulsory to take it,..just like the spainish flue,..learn your histry

[and im boycotting lamb,its the meat that creates sheeple]baaa baaa

Antiseptic, I have been told that we do not allow pork bone to be imported.
All pork meat imports are boneless. This is also the reason why high quality 'spare ribs' 'american style' are so expensive now becasue less local pork is bonned

Isn't relief passed on? I mean if a farmer gets "relief" don't they in turn pay for their goods and services?

Yes, you are correct, however I am more reffering to the truck driver who relies on the farmers crops for freight, or the fruiterer, who relies on the farmers crops for re-sale, or of cause, the butcher who relies on meat from farmers to re-sell. None of these businesses get relief!

Because as a nation we massively over produce."

Isn't this how a country makes money?
Wasn't my argument, I was meerly making a point.

My neighbours do. Sorry slipped out.

Yes, but do they then sell to the re-sellers or exporters, or do they provide for them selves.