Ecológicas

The Egyptian government’s decision to cull all of the country’s 300,000 pigs in May 2009 is increasingly being viewed by experts and officials as a gross mistake as piles of organic waste the pigs once ate accumulate in Cairo’s streets, posing serious health hazards.
The month-long cull was ostensibly to stem the spread of H1N1 influenza, but the government later said it was simply a general health measure.
The cull hit the livelihoods of 70,000 former pig farmers and unofficial rubbish collectors and their families in the Cairo area, according to local NGO Association for the Protection of the Environment.
During a recent stormy session of parliament, Cairo Governor Abdelazeem Wazeer called the decision to cull the pigs a 'mistake' and legislator Hamdy el-Sayed, chairman of the Doctors’ Association, called it a “national scandal”.
The decision to kill the pigs was wrong and hasty.
There could’ve been better alternatives.
The pigs could’ve been moved from their farms in the cities to the desert.
'Our streets are overcome by waste. This is catastrophic', he said.
Shabana warned that some of Cairo’s rubbish-filled streets could become breeding grounds for diseases such as typhoid and cholera.
Areas of central Cairo, Giza and Daqahlia on the capital’s periphery are the most affected by the pig cull.

IRIN

Bueno, dicen que el 55% de la basura de Egipto se produce en Cairo, y estamos hablando de cerca de 25.000 toneladas diarias.
El 70% del total (unas 17.500 ton) son residuos orgánicos.
Antes con eso alimentaban a los cerdos, pero ahora se pudre en las calles.
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No quiero ser amarga, pero estoy en duda qué es más asqueroso, si lo que pasaba antes o lo que sucede ahora.
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