A turkey “facility” in  Ontario, Canada is reporting that some of their birds have contracted the h1n1 flu virus.

This new report of species cross-contamination comes hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement by CNN that a Minnesota pig just got a dose of his own h1n1 medicine.

In both cases respective officials assured the public that the food supply was not in jeopardy and that cooking meat properly would kill any trace of the virus. In other words  if a looming  factory farm catastrophe potentially threatens your health it’s your own damned fault for not using a meat thermometer.

But wait a second,  haven’t we been told for months that sick pigs aren’t of any concern to humans? And weren’t we told this after the World Health Organization determined the initial outbreak began at a Mexican pig farm? And since when do birds get swine flu and not bird flu? And how come the pigs are gettin’ off scot free when only a couple of years ago the poor old birds were culled by the millions as a preventative against a wide-scale h5n1 pandemic? And if the virus cannot exist in muscle tissue anyway, why then the added warning to cook your food properly? Are people eating dangerously undercooked meat really that much of a problem these days? And if at the end of the day sick pigs really are less of a health issue than your average, run of the mill  e-coli or listeria outbreak then why all the special announcements and warnings?