Epidemic Proves Evil of Globalization

May 4, 2009 (LPAC)—Canada is reporting that a worker returning from Mexico to a hog farm in Alberta, had the new swine flu and infected pigs on the farm with it. The pigs got a relatively mild disease similar to the human disease and are recovering. The significance of this is, of course, that it shows the ease of transfer. Pigs are very susceptible to flus that humans pass around. Scientists speculate that the 1918 flu was passed on to swine in the pandemic, and became the dominant swine form of influenza until 1998, when it became supplanted with a more recent human flu type. If this new A(H1N1) becomes a human pandemic, it could become the dominant swine disease in pigs, if it likes the "terrain." Of course, although this doesn't prove the case, it raises the question of how easily the infected pigs in Canada could pass on the disease back to humans working on the farm. It is also possible that the Canadian cases really just show that the disease has been circulating in pigs presently after all, despite what WHO and CDC officials have claimed—the smoking gun, so to speak.

Regardless of who gave what to whom, if the virus can efficiently lodge in swine and reinfect humans as it travels the globe this summer, we can expect significant changes in it, which could make a virulent pandemic resistant to antivirals much more likely next fall. There are a lot of pigs in the Southern Hemisphere in close contact with a lot of people. There are also a lot of flu strains circulating with Tamiflu resistance and other nasty qualities our present virus could pick up.

Lyndon LaRouche responded that "this epidemic is crucial evidence of the inherent evil and stupidity of globalization. That is specifically, the globalizers' policy of having food produced in a country which is not the place where it's eaten. This is the new Tower of Babel policy. This is what must end. We must decentralize food production, so that we can localize epidemic problems which may arise in that connection. We must end globalization now, and go back to the sovereign state, rather than monopolies in international trade."