Unintended consequences, Egypt edition
- Monday, September 21 2009 @ 04:11 PM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Via Jungle Trader, this from the New York Times:
Oops.
When the government killed all the pigs in Egypt this spring — in what public health experts said was a misguided attempt to combat swine flu — it was warned the city (Cairo) would be overwhelmed with trash.
The pigs used to eat tons of organic waste. Now the pigs are gone and the rotting food piles up on the streets of middle-class neighborhoods like Heliopolis and in the poor streets of communities like Imbaba.
Oops.