from SLATE's news summary: >>>Both the NY [TIMES] and [Washington] Post run front-page photos of >>>5-year-old Edgar Hernandez, whom the Mexican government has identified as >>>the first person in Mexico to come down with the variant of swine flu that >>>is threatening to become a global epidemic. It's not clear why the boy came >>>down with the flu, but his hometown is host to large pig farms.<
me: >>does Mexico use the same kind of industrial farming model for pigs >>that the US does? Bill Lear wrote: > Aren't the pig farms in this case U.S. pig farms? I'd guess that there are some pig farms there that are left over from the era before massive US capital investment in Mexico so that they are owned by Mexicans or their corporations. Some or many of the pig farms owned by Mexicans or their corporations likely imitate US techniques. In any event, we shouldn't see Mexico as merely an appendage of the US. Mexican capitalists invest here in the US, for example. Carlos Slim invested in the New York TIMES, if I remember correctly. The capitalist classes of the two countries are merging, with the US-based capitalists mostly on top, but not completely. (This process of the merger of capitalist classes around the world seems a "rational core" of Thomas Friedman's "the world is flat" theory.) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
