Youssef, or Perhaps Not
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
  The Egyptian Bird Flu Propaganda Machine

The Egyptian State Information Service has been quick to throw up a website devoted to the issue of the H5N1 avian virus in Egypt.

Some of the news releases are hilarious. Here's one good bit:

For his part, Ahmed Tawfik, the head of veterinary services in Egypt, assured the public that farm chickens, if infected, would not in anyway be able to reach consumers because they would not be able to outlive the disease.

The logical conclusions from this statement are truly wondrous. He's saying basically that since H5N1 renders the chicken dead, therefore none of these dead chickens reach the consumer anyhow. Which really means that we should only buy live chickens from Carrefour and Metro because, erm, live chickens... can't have... bird flu...?

Brain... explode...

  9:02 PM
Comments:
A balady woman who was explaining on Arabic BBC radio what she did to her flock of domestic cheken said: "We threw ayaw the dead ones; slaughtered the life, and cleaned them; and cleared the henhouse and men from the government are spraying it and other people's"

"They slaughtered them, TO BE EATEM"
# posted by Anonymous Alif : 10:52 PM
 
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