April 30, 2009 – addition

Let me elaborate on yesterday’s post. Pigs don’t fare well in the major religions here, but the stories behind yesterday’s post are not “religious.” Egypt’s pig raisers are Copts, so there is a political connection to the religious opportunity to destroy pigs. And although the assistant minister of health in Israel was trying to lower the fear rate by ‘neutralizing’ the name, Mexico became insulted by our change of name, so we’re stuck with Swine.