The Smell Is so Awful That I Start to Vomit ; Giant Lagoons of Pig Waste and 'Biodigestors' Full of Dead Pigs - Was This Factory Farm Where the Swine Flu Outbreak Began? [Eire Region]
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BARRICADED with double perimeter electric and razor wire fences and protected by security lights and locked gates, the ominous- looking compound in the high plains five hours east of Mexico City might be mistaken for a prison - except that the inmates are pigs.
An unobtrusive sign tells me I have arrived at Site 8-2, a huge factory farm near the isolated hamlet of La Gloria where residents claim they are living at Ground Zero of the swine flu epidemic.See the full content of this document
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The Smell Is so Awful That I Start to Vomit ; Giant Lagoons of Pig Waste and 'Biodigestors' Full of Dead Pigs - Was This Factory Farm Where the Swine Flu Outbreak Began? [Eire Region]
The desert wind is rank with a nauseating stench. Eight hangar- style buildings house 7,200 sows and their piglets but the complex is eerily silent except for an occasional grunt. It is part of a chain of 16 farms in this region that are owned by a Mexican company, Granjas 176, but the disease has taken a Carroll de Mexico (GCM), in partnership...
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