Edwin
5 May 2010

Re: Nothing learned

Jojo Casilang

We own properties in several towns in Pangasinan. The reason we were there for only three weeks this time was because we had important business there that could not wait. I normally travel to the province several times a year, always staying for more than a month each time. I plan to be back in the province around November and plan to be there until some time February.

As far as being a foreigner, I was born in La Union and spent the entire WWII hiding from the Japanese until the Philippines was liberated. I am proud of my Filipino heritage and that heritage does not say I have to live next to illegal piggeries. There is nothing in the Filipino culture that says people have to live next to a pigsty.

You may enjoy the smell of pig feces and urine but the people in the barangays next to the pig pens do not. They live with it because they fear reprisal from the owner of the piggeries and in most cases do not have the money or luxury of being able to move away. There is nothing more humiliating and irritable than having a gathering with your friends and have the wind blowing the stench from the piggeries toward you.

Mr. Casilang, pigstys are filthy no matter how often you clean them. They attract flies, rats and a multitude of disease. Not only are these stys filthy but they are illegal. If you enjoy the pig stys so much maybe I can arrange to have you wallow in one to your hearts content.

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