Interesting that France’s 24-hour news channel, LCI, referred to the swine flu epidemic as the “Mexican flu” both in text and spoken news last night. Why pick on pigs, many of whom live in France, when you can blame a country across the ocean?  Actually, after the many very sad and serious televised images of farmers during the Bird flu epidemic and of course the beef bans during the Mad Cow scare, you can’t blame the pork lobby for being worried. Unlike, other viruses, however, people cannot get Swine  flu, from eating pork, a food the French love (jambon, saucisson). Still, seems the pressure might be on the media to head-off a pork scare.