Sentences with phrase «industrial hog farm»

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.

Not exact matches

The ever - optimistic Ohio farmer Gene Logsdon, for instance, makes a persuasive case for returning to grass - feeding steers, hogs, chicken, dairy cows and sheep instead of the concentrated feedlot farming favored by industrial agribusiness.

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.

Moreover, when hogs are raised in crowded environments in industrial - scale farms they require greater quantities of antibiotics (pdf) to promote growth and compensate for unsanitary conditions.

Perhaps surprisingly, until only about forty years ago, trading futures markets consisted of only a few commodity farm products, however, now they have been joined by a huge number of tradable financial and other tradable products such as precious metals like gold, silver and platinum; livestock such as hogs and cattle; energy contracts such as crude oil and natural gas; foodstuffs like coffee and orange juice; and industrials like lumber and cotton.

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