Egypt regrets killing trash-eating pigs
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Posted By Iker - Sun, Oct 25 2009 at 5:05 PM ESTSome other treatment for waste
Since getting the pigs again would be a lot of money, maybe some of them could try vermicomposting the organic waste!
Posted By Uncle B - Sun, Oct 25 2009 at 12:29 PM ESTPigs, For Fuel, Fertilizer, Food!
Did these kindly folk at least eat or render to oil and fertilizer the pigs they slaughtered as any sane suvuvor nation would do? As Americans do? Didn't they stop and realize, pigs turn garbage into pig Shiite, ideal for making bio-gas, and topsoil improving fertilizers? Did they waste this gift of G d? Was this their smartest move? Can these folk learn to adapt to an ever-changing world, or will they too, go the way of the Dodo bird, into self-imposed, religiously enforced self inflicted.... More
Posted By Judith - Mon, Sep 28 2009 at 3:17 PM ESTegypt regrets.....
unbelievable and disgusting. As Mahatma Gandhi said "society is judged by the way it treats it's animals." The Egyptians used to be an incredibly enlightened society. What the H happened?
Posted By Frank G - Fri, Oct 16 2009 at 6:12 PM ESTISLAM HAPPENED
These muslims grabbed an oppurtunity to get rid of coptic living in Egypt...I was there as a tourist and needless to say, Cairo is a **** hole last time i was there 10 years back....Muslims are ignorant dumb idiots in egypt....
Posted By T. Navarro - Tue, Sep 29 2009 at 8:58 PM ESTEgypt regrets killing pigs
I frankly don't foresee the day when I, and many other tourists, will visit Egypt after that beyond-ignorant murder of all those innocent pigs.
Posted By Bunnyv - Thu, Sep 24 2009 at 4:05 PM ESTThank you bigger picture
Your post definitely makes more sense than this article. Thank you!
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Sep 23 2009 at 5:06 PM ESTAnother Film about the Zabbaleen
Learn more about the Zabbaleen by watching this film:
MARINA OF THE ZABBALEEN
A film by Engi Wassef
Marína of the Zabbaleen is a cinematic documentary that explores the world
of seven-year-old Marína in the Muqqattam garbage recycling village in
Cairo, Egypt. An impressionistic portrait of childhood and family, the film
also tells the story of the resourceful Zabbaleen, a Coptic Christian community of recyclers whose entrepreneurial waste management.... More
Posted By Ashley Chase - Wed, Sep 23 2009 at 4:58 PM ESTFAIL
epic fail, egypt. this is such a disgusting situation.
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Sep 23 2009 at 1:43 PM ESTZaballeen Down but not Out!
Enter your comments here Yes, the massive slaughtering of pigs was another huge resource that the Zaballeen are having to live without, but rather than dwelling on their woes; these incredibly resilient environmental entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the latest garbage fiasco by speaking out even louder, and becoming even more determined to implement their plan of "Source Separation". The Zaballeen have a long history of finding solutions rather than falling victim to seemingly.... More
Posted By Anonymous - Wed, Sep 23 2009 at 11:40 AM ESTNew documentary on the Zabaleen
To learn even more about the Zabaleen - and how the Egyptian government's attempts to modernize the trash trade are affecting them - check out the new documentary GARBAGE DREAMS (www.garbagedreams.com). The Zabaleen recycle 80% of the trash they collect and the multinational companies recycle just 20%. As Al Gore so elequently put it, "Garbage Dreams makes a compelling case that modernization does not always.... More
Posted By Elizah Leigh - Tue, Sep 22 2009 at 7:10 PM ESTOinking Mad
What a complete and utter lack of regard for life. I am so sick and tired of officials decimating animal populations without proper knowledge supporting their case, and I wouldn't be surprised if they just waste the carcasses by letting them rot in a mass grave.
Posted By Anonymous - Tue, Sep 22 2009 at 4:47 PM ESTthe bigger picture
There is nothing to suggest, contrary to your intro, that any Egyptian officials regret or see flaws in killing the pigs. Nor are any officials cited.
You should understand that the zebaleen don't collect just organic waste; they go door-to-door to collect all waste, which they sort into organic (for the pigs) and dry waste (for recycling), leaving whatever has no value in the street-side bins for the foreign companies to pick up. So it isn't a case that Egyptians "haven't adapted to the.... More
Egypt regrets killing trash-eating pigs
It seems this happening all over the world. The Bumbleen in Moronicstan have had their pigs taken away and killed too by the Taliban who claim that the pigs were spreading the herpes virus. Makes you wonder why no one is covering this debacle.