"The Terrible Consequences of Egypt's Swine Slaughter"

For those who have never been, Cairo has a lot of trash. A lot of it. And, remarkably, most of that trash remains organic. Pigs tend to eat organic trash and convert it to flesh, in fact they do this at a rate faster than any other land mammal. Egypt's government recently ordered that all pigs be slaughtered to prevent the spread of swine flu. The natural, albeit incidental, consequences of that decision are chronicled here. 

Hitchens' sectarian analysis is particularly interesting, and as usual, he does not let the opportunity to rail against religion slide.