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Pigs
Boss
Hog — The Nation's Top Hog Producer is Also One of
America's Worst Polluters
Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone, feature — December 2006
America's top pork producer churns out a
sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions
of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA
history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white
meat...
Corporate
Hog Farms
Mike Owens, KSDK feature — July 2005
Tens of thousands of corporate hogs are
being bred and fed in Missouri, with thousands more
expected, as one of the nation's biggest hog producers
plans an expansion. But
detractors say the booming hog business has a downside:
it hurts the environment and the family farm...
How
Pigs Could be Launchpad for Bird Flu Pandemic
James Meilde, The Guardian, feature — June 2005
A virologist from Hong Kong warned pigs
could provide a launchpad, even if birds carrying the
virus, which is causing havoc in Vietnam, Cambodia
and Thailand, failed to do so...
How
Much Do Intelligent Pigs Suffer?
Animal Sentience, feature — April 2005
An
animal that is not aware of its thoughts may still
be aware of its feelings and emotions. An awareness
of sensations and emotions is known as "feelings
consciousness". As
far as welfare is concerned, this is the crux of
the matter: what an animal feels, not just what
it thinks...
They're
Gonna Die Anyway
Michelle Rivera, essay — February
2005
If
we stopped using leather products, and gelatin, and
other animal by-products, the cost of meat would soar
to an unattainable level for most people, effectively
crippling the beef industry...
Bio-pharming
Begs Closer Scrutiny
Benjamin K. Sovacool, The Roanoke Times,
commentary — December 2004
One
type of industrial biotechnology frequently overlooked
in discussions about the dangers of genetic engineering
is bio-pharming, or the genetic altering of plants
and animals to produce pharmaceuticals...
Big
Earl and Me
Richad Hoyle, Ode to Big Earl, essay — March
2004
When
the trailer pulled up and they dropped the gate /
I knew his arrival was more than fate /
One look in his eyes and I could plainly tell /
His life with us would go very well
A special bond there soon would be /
Between this pig, Big Earl, and me...
Libby's
Story
Judy Woods, Pigs Peace Sanctuary, essay — Winter 2004
She
walks off snacking on bites of sweet clover and having a care free day. From
the moment she wakes up she is off deciding how her day will be spent...
Packaged
Pigs:
Ending the Confinement
Animals Voice, feature — 2001
Roughly 100 million
pigs are raised and slaughtered in the U.S. every
year. As babies, they are subjected to painful mutilations
without anesthesia or pain relievers...
Getting
Away With Murder:
Inside a Pig Slaughter Plant
Andrew Tyler, essay
21
hours on truck and train, then 15 minutes per animal as it was electrocuted,
stabbed, degutted and transported to the chillers...
A
Childhood Memory
Paulette Callen, poem
Like
people screaming. But it couldn’t be. I was old
enough to know that just couldn’t be. Nothing
bad could be happening in there. It wouldn’t
be allowed. I was old enough to know that. So I passed
the building each morning and evening with a strange
prickling of dread, and forgot about it till the
next time...
In
the Leaving
Laura Moretti, essay
The screaming of the
butchered pig in its death throes triggered the incredibly
deafening screams of the pigs in the holding pens.
Pitch. Lull. Pitch. And again... I believe they knew.
They could hear the dying inside the warehouse...
Animal
Factories
Jim Mason, excerpts
It
is hard to see it, this mountain range of pain and destruction,
for it is obscured by the mists of popular myth and the
fog and haze generated by the animal industries... we
are told that animals love to be eaten, as in the
Oscar Mayer jingle in which a chorus of children
sings: “I’d
love to be an Oscar Mayer weiner...
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