Accidental Blogger

Superstition ridden medieval Europe condemned cats as witchs' agents and slaughtered them. Nature's pay back for that brutal and dastardly act came in the form of the Black Plague when the rat population proliferated in the absence of a natural feline pest control. A similar but less deadly fate may be in store for Egypt whose president Hosni Mubarak, in a heartless, mindless and misguided moment of inspiration, ordered all pigs killed in order to protect the nation from swine flu. The streets of Cairo are now awash in stinking garbage. The pigs used to consume organic trash in large quantities and helped keep the city  partially clean. Now they are all gone due to the stupid step taken by ignorant, cowardly politicians and the rubbish is piling up. So, Egyptians are protected from swine flu (they wish!) but are sure to suffer from other more easy to spread infectious diseases that the putrid waste will help breed. And they had been warned of the consequences of the idiotic measure. The story in the New York Times.