Clashes erupt over Egypt pig cull

[JI7]

Source: bbc

Egyptian pig farmers have clashed with police in Cairo, as they tried to stop their animals being slaughtered.

Hundreds of people at the Manshiyat Nasr slum threw stones and bottles at police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Egypt's pigs mostly belong to the Coptic Christian minority who say the cull has reignited religious tensions.

Pig-farming and consumption is concentrated in Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, estimated at 10% of the population.

Many are reared in slum areas by rubbish collectors who use the pigs to dispose of organic waste. They say the cull will harm their businesses and has renewed tensions with Egypt's Muslim majority.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8031490.stm

[KillCapitalism]

1. Egypt pig farmers clash with police over slaughter

Source: Associated Free Press

by Samer el-Atrush Samer El-atrush – 50 mins ago
CAIRO (AFP) – Egyptian riot police clashed on Sunday with stone-throwing pig farmers who were trying to prevent their animals being taken away for slaughter as part of a mass nationwide cull.

Between 300 and 400 residents of the hilly Moqattam slum district of Cairo, where mostly Coptic Christian scrap merchants raise pigs, hurled stones and bottles at police.

Anti-riot police replied by firing rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators, most of them youths.

An AFP correspondent said the protesters ransacked a police post and an officer fired warning shots in the air.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090503/wl_mideast_afp/healthfluegyptunrest_20090503144954

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Wow, this Swine Flu epidemic is starting to get a little bit scary, but these people are poor and their livestock is all that they really own in a lot of cases.

[Merlot]

2. People don't get swine flu from pigs, right? Why are they killing pigs?

Did I miss something?

[Sultana]

3. Just an excuse for Muslims to get rid of pigs

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Pig is delicious :9

[pampango]

6. For a second I thought you were going to say

Just an excuse for Muslims to off the pigs. Took me back a few decades. :)

[Mojorabbit]

5. Well yesterday

Canada announced pigs got this flu from humans. Swine flu can be passed from pigs to humans but I think it is a rare occurrence. It has happened in the US a few times over the past decade if I am remembering articles I have read correctly.

[Deja Q]

4. Better headline for today's audiences:

"People squeal over Egypt pig cull"

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