The Mild Benefits to Swine Flu

Benefits to swine flu? Before you start throwing rotten tomatoes my way, hear me out. Despite the illnesses and the world-wide hysteria (not to mention the absolutely grotesque and absurd slaying of innocent piglets) there is one positive to this madness: free hand sanitizer.

On my way out of Penn Station this morning I was handed a nice little free stack of Sani Hands hand sanitizer. Not only do I love free stuff, but it got me thinkin': if everyone in NYC and the world started being a little more conscious of germs and a little more cleanlier it could benefit us in more ways than just avoiding the swine. The flu even brought the Mayor of NYC to check out the health safety of subways.

Although there is no correlation to eating pig and getting the swine flu, the epidemic has caused a bit of scare in terms of pork products, and when more people eat less meat I think we all win.

P.S. Speaking of pigs -- there is this amazing organization called Farm Sanctuary that rescues animals from the torment of factory farms, etc. They just brought in an adorable, adorable little baby piglet named Fiona. Help Fiona out and donate!!