On AlterNet: hog farms

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "hog farms"

The Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power

Mike Davis, Comment Is Free. April 28, 2009.
Animal husbandry now more closely resembles the petrochemical industry than the happy family farm.

How the Meat Industry Is Making a Killing

Tom Philpott, Grist.org. October 2, 2007.
Without access to exploitable labor and comically lax environmental codes, the industrial-meat complex would surely wither away. Instead it turns a huge profit.

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