{"id":19048,"date":"2018-08-04T18:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T08:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19048"},"modified":"2018-08-04T18:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T08:21:57","slug":"the-big-one-how-environmental-killing-becomes-a-medical-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19048","title":{"rendered":"The big one: how environmental killing becomes a medical disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pig_Waste_Lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Pig_Waste_Lake-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Pig_Waste_Lake\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19049\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cTo handle all that [pig-farm feces] waste, farmers in North Carolina use a standard practice called the lagoon and spray field system. They flush feces and urine from barns into open-air pits called lagoons, which turn the color of Pepto-Bismol when pink-colored bacteria colonize the waste. To keep the lagoons from overflowing, farmers spray liquid manure on their fields nearby. The result, says Steve Wing, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is this: \u2018The eastern part of North Carolina is covered with shit\u2019.\u201d \u2014National Geographic, 10\/30\/14<br \/>\nThe above quote describes corporate pig farming around the world.<br \/>\nIn order to carry out this operation, giant companies like Smithfield have influenced legislators and government-agency officials. Environmental laws and regulations are ignored, or changed. Lawsuits are fought, hammer and tongs.<br \/>\nHere is what Robert F Kennedy Jr. told radio interviewer, Rachel Lewis Hilburn on 6\/3\/16: \u201c\u2026a hog produces ten times the amount of fecal waste by weight as a human being, so if you have a facility that has ten thousand hogs in it, it\u2019s producing as much sewage as a city of a hundred thousand people. Smithfield has one plant in Utah\u2014they call it Circle Four Farms\u2014that has a million hogs on it, so it\u2019s producing the same amount of waste as New York City every day.\u201d<br \/>\nHere is Kennedy\u2019s kicker:<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s no difference between hog waste and human waste in terms of its danger to human health. They [Smithfield and other giant corporate pig operations] ought to have to have a sewage treatment plant that cleans it up. And yet, if they had to build that sewage treatment plan, it would drive the price of hogs up so that they could no longer function in the marketplace\u2026 they ought to have to build sewage treatment facilities but nobody\u2019s making them do that because they have used political clout\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nAll right, that\u2019s a bit of background. Now I\u2019m going to shift to the subject of Swine Flu, the phony epidemic of 2009.<br \/>\nWhere did it start?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/jon-rappoport\/the-big-one-how-environmental-killing-becomes-a-medical-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/jon-rappoport\/the-big-one-how-environmental-killing-becomes-a-medical-disease\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo handle all that [pig-farm feces] waste, farmers in North Carolina use a standard practice called the lagoon and spray field system. They flush feces and urine from barns into open-air pits called lagoons, which turn the color of Pepto-Bismol when pink-colored bacteria colonize the waste. To keep the lagoons from overflowing, farmers spray liquid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The big one: how environmental killing becomes a medical disease&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}