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Egypt is the only country in the world to have decided to kill all its pigs
Pigs are piled up on in the back of a truck before getting culled and buried on the outskirts of Cairo on May 14. A YouTube video clip showing pigs being culled in Egypt as part of swine flu measures has caused outrage at the apparent barbarity of the method of slaughtering the animals.
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