Sentences with phrase «hog farms»

None of the cases were near Perote, which received a flurry of media attention shortly after the outbreak surfaced because it had what then looked like the earliest cases and the large hog farms in the area.

The most sensitive detector of hog farm air pollution, he adds, is still the human nose.

In North Carolina, these are areas downstream from hog farming operations, and in Maryland, downstream from large chicken farms.

But Olsen says this is unlikely on large hog farms.

That increase could also promote the growth of antibiotic - resistant bacteria and increase health risks for hog farm workers and the communities living around them.

STINKING lagoons of pig manure created by thousands of animals in giant hog farms can pollute rivers, poison groundwater and pump out clouds of methane and carbon dioxide.

When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of New York - based environmental non-profit Waterkeeper Alliance, offered Nicolette Hahn Niman a position as senior attorney and lead organizer on a campaign against factory hog farms, she balked: «I'm not sure I want to work full - time on manure.»

A Williamsburg County hog farm will be the site of a new methane gas power generation facility.

«In the past, to understand the impact of an environmental odour, you would capture the odour in a container, bring it to the laboratory, dilute it successively, present those dilutions to panellists, and have them tell at what point they could detect the odour,» says Pamela Dalton of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who uses the Nasal Ranger to monitor the smells emitted by hog farms.

Since money can be saved by mass production, huge hog farms now raise their hogs in miserable condition, meanwhile massively polluting the land and water and bankrupting farmers who try to continue more natural production methods.

• Honolulu Fish Company • Twinn Bridges • Bell & Evans • White Oak Pastures • Black Hog Farms • Hammock Hollow Farms • Fresh & Wild • Cedar Key Shellfish • Halperns» Purveyors of Steak and Seafood • Kane's Family Farm • Fortune Fish • Texas Broken Arrow Ranch • Engine 15 Brewing Company

This data includes independent family - owned hog farms.

«I have other X-rays here, but the thing I like about the Novus units is their ability to self - train; a guy that doesn't even know much about X-ray can do it,» says Bob Taylor, Superintendent of Electronics and Controls at Clemens Food Group — a vertically coordinated company that includes hog farming, food production, logistical services and transportation.

By 2007, just three percent of U.S. hog farms, which produced a mere 0.12 percent of the swine brought to market, fed excess human food to their livestock.

Seeking to redeem its hog industry, the Tar Heel State imposed a temporary ban on new or expanded hog farms in 1997.

«The industry is under fire from hog farm neighbors,» Von Essen says.

In 2010, Von Essen co-authored a systematic review on CAFOs and community health in PLOS ONE that examined the relationship between hog farms and allergies and asthma, but found the evidence for such a relationship to be inconsistent.

On many hog farms, the waste runs into a storage lagoon from which it is pumped and sprayed on surrounding fields.

As a result, the runoff from hog farms dumps millions of tons of phosphorus - tainted waste into the soil.

This report from the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory describes a novel swine influenza found in three workers at a Saskatchewan hog farm.

Aside from the dizzying stench, hog farms pollute the environment by releasing phosphorous, which leads to the death of fish.

The merger would then help fuel China's shift toward even more hog farms that adopt Smithfield's vertically integrated processes — namely, industrial - size farms that raise pigs in close quarters and dispose of their waste through the lagoon - and - spray method, thereby threatening to reproduce the same health and antibiotic - resistance issues in China.

For now, hog farming communities are holding their collective breath.

In fact, China's State Council in 2011 said that it planned to put $ 385 million a year toward construction of large - scale hog farms for five years, moving toward consolidation.

Meanwhile, a study9, 10 just released by the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that people who live near hog farms or places where hog manure is applied as fertilizer have a much greater risk of contracting MRSA.»

Among the 30 - plus gifts that little Sophia received from her relatives were: a toy train, a space - hogging farm door activity centre, several Cabbage Patch dolls, some wheeled animals (that have gone untouched since), a toy vacuum, a toy mop, two strollers, and a bike that the child has yet to ride because she can't reach the pedals.

Prior to BC SPCA, Craig worked on several farms, including being the operational manager of a commercial hog farm on Vancouver Island.

Most Popular: Lawsuits Against North Carolina Hog Farms Could Help Reform State's CAFO Industry.

Quick aside: this concern over drilling in a flood zone is the same reason Arkansans are concerned about an industrial hog farm being built near the Buffalo National River.

We have handled many claims against many types of farms such as hog farms, cattle farms, wind farms, windmill construction, irrigation or drainage operations, chemical or fertilizer exposure, and commercial farms.

People who lived next to the 15,000 - head hog farm in Eastern North Carolina filed suit in 2014 against the pork producer Murphy - Brown, a division of Smithfield Foods, according to prior coverage by the Wall Street Journal and Law360.

Meat cutters, butchers and hog farm employment present very dangerous places to work.

Our meatpacking and hog farm accident attorneys have represented workers facing a wide range of injuries, including repetitive motion / trauma injuries, crush injuries, back injuries, injuries from exposure to toxic chemicals and more.

Previous research in North Carolina, where the growth of hog farms has been so staggering in the last 25 years that now there are more hogs than people, found that farm odor caused stress and negative mood states in neighboring residents, according to a 2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health.

Unlike, say, dog poop that can be easily washed off a shoe, people have no way to avoid the smell wafting from a giant hog farm — and animal studies suggest that the impact of stressors, which can cause, for example, feelings of depression and anxiety, can be modulated by a sense of control over that stressor.

Epidemiologist Steve Wing from the Gillings School of Global Public Health placed air pollution monitors in communities surrounded by large hog farms.

Now, a factory hog farm is putting one of Arkansas» most beautiful spots at risk.

The methane digester will be built on a Williamsburg County hog farm and the electricity generated will be used by customers of Santee Cooper, the state - owned utility.

Last July North Carolina became the first state to ban building new lagoons on hog farms.

Instead of burial at sea in a PC attempt to honor his religion of peace, his body should have been shredded and spread spread about on a hog farm.

But the Zabinskis remained, and used their connections to convert the zoo into a hog farm.

Realizing that steady income from an acting and singing career can be undependable, Jimmy invested his show - biz money in a hog farm.

(See Scientific American's article «Flu Factories» from January 2011 for more about how influenza circulates in hog farms.)

In a second animation, the path of swine influenza H1N1 is traced over time from its origins in the Southeast's hog farms.

The stench of a large hog farm may seem nauseating, but a study now suggests that hog farm emissions — which include dust, irritants, allergens, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and hundreds of volatile organic compounds — could have a measurable impact on human health.

If the novel H1N1 virus behaves like its ancestors, humans may have a rough road ahead, especially if it takes hold on hog farms.