Once again, in its quest for a scapegoat for a crisis facing society, the media has set its sights on a large corporation.
A segment by ABC correspondent Jeffrey Kofman, reporting from La
“When people heard here that a case of swine flu had been traced to this area, few were surprised,” Kofman said. “And in the next breath they’ll tell you they think they know where it came from.”
“Just about a few miles from the village are a dozen huge industrial pig farms, the vast majority part-owned by
“Back in La Gloria, the men complain about the polluted air and groundwater, but they don’t know how Edgar got sick,” Kofman said. “The pig farms they say are all bad.”
But Dr. Kathryn Edwards of
“The most likely way that this young boy got this infection was from another person who had been in contact with the pigs,” Edwards explained.
Smithfield owns 50 percent of the pig farm in question. However its Smithfield’s partner, Granjas Carroll de Mexico, actually operates the farm.