Egypt Kills All Pigs

   Pigs, they provide us food, and in Egypt, they clean up the garbage. Unfortunately, due to the panic ensued by the outbreak of the N1H1 Swine Flu, President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ordered that all pigs be killed in order to cull the disease. Now, the streets are filled with garbage. Killing the pigs is not an answer to destroying swine flu; the N1H1 was spread to pigs by a human, and then transmitted back but in a mutated form. From there, it spread to birds, and the virus is now mutated with three diseases in its structure, avian flu, swine flu, and the human flu. In attempt to solve this problem, the government hired multinational companies to collect the trash. Instead, the companies decided to place bins around the city. The companies expected the communities to pick up after themselves and help clean up the streets. Unfortunately people are accustomed to seeing someone pick up the trash for them. As if the garbage is not enough, the government announced that it would have to close schools to prepare for a potential swine flu outbreak, which they should have done two months ago had they not been busy killing off their waste disposal system.

   The government of Egypt has put itself in is very unfortunate and could have been avoided by tinking about the lonterm consequences of their pig-killing. By killing off the pigs, they have destroyed their only way of getting rid of trash. Now the trash have piled up, companies expect the people to clean up their own mess, education is halted until October, and the country is hastily attempting to prepare for a possible swine flu outbreak. Ironically, the drastic action taken to cull the swine flu has created another problem: the rotting garbage that no one is touching.