Who needs government regulations, anyway? Let the customers decide if they’d like rancid pig blood flowing through their drinking water supply (that is, if they’d ever know). For Heaven’s sake, let’s not inconvenience the corporate board of this fine, meat-packing establishment with silly rules and squeamishness when they have a profit margin to meet.  They’ll just tell us that people’s jobs are tied to that illegal pipe currently polluting public waterways — cost of business!

Drone Pilot Discovers River of Meat Blood

A Dallas drone hobbyist was flying his rig around one bright Texan afternoon, scouting the skies, when he hovered across something perturbing: an enormous, oozing river of blood behind a meatpacking plant. That’s gross and illegal! Here come the cops.

The pilot tells sUAS News his reaction, which sounds remarkably calm given he discovered a huge stream of blood emptying into the Trinity River:

I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood red creek and was thinking, could this really be what I think it is? Can you really do that, surely not?

Secret Slaughterhouse Pipeline Fills Texas Creek With Pig Blood – The Consumerist

…A search warrant executed on the nearby slaughterhouse and meat-packing plant found that there was an underground pipe leading to the creek. That’s very, very illegal, and the various government agencies involved won’t comment on what kind of charges could be in store for whoever installed that pipe.

From the CDC:

Q. Can people get swine influenza from eating pork?

A. Swine influenza has not been shown to be transmissible to people through eating properly handled and prepared pork (pig meat) or other products derived from pigs.

No idea if this fetid, old, pig’s blood flowing out of a slaughterhouse is properly handled and prepared before it’s entering a waterway — but my guess is: probably not.

And consider this news:

[P]igs also may become infected with flu viruses from people, and from birds. This cross-species spread and possible mixing of flu viruses can lead to new and very different flu viruses that might gain the ability to spread easily between people.

So imagine if one or more of the pigs were infected with swine flu and then some birds (some of which were also infected with bird flu) drank that water…

Rage Virus accomplished!