Egypt made a mistake with pig slaughter but will never admit it...

The Egyptian government said its slaughter of pigs was to stop any possible outbreak of the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. When international health officials, including the WHO, said the virus was not being passed to humans through pigs, the government changed its tune, saying the cull was to clean up the garbage collectors' neighbourhoods.

According to government figures, about 300,000 pigs have been slaughtered since the culling began in May, and now streets in Cairo are filled with the rubbish that had previously been collected by the city's zabaleen, or garbage collectors, to feed to their pigs.

Too late, the government has seen the problem. In fact, everyone has seen the problem, literally, as piles of garbage accumulate on the streets. The zabaleen had been the country's main clean-up crew for decades, living in shantytowns on the outskirts of the city. But with their pigs gone, there is no need for them to pick up the organic waste they had fed to their animals. More...

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