Sentences with phrase «industrial pig farms»

Over the past four years, she's worked at two industrial pig farms, two commercial dairies, a calf ranch, a tiger breeding facility, a horse training stable and three research laboratories.

How many cases of extreme cruelty must we uncover before the industry acknowledges that there's something rotten at some considerable number of industrial pig farms throughout the nation?

Anyone who has ever been to a feedlot or industrial pig farm knows that the environmental issues are huge.

In the winter of 2009, people living near a giant industrial pig farm in La Gloria, Mexico, reportedly became ill with a severe respiratory virus.

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Eighty million of the ninety - five million pigs raised each year in America live on an industrial farm; more than 80 percent of those farms house around five thousand pigs each.

Having grown up on an intensive pig farm in rural Denmark, Kat realised early the detrimental effects of industrial and intensive farming.

Pastured pig and poultry farms must be unshackled from the negative environmental and social consequences [1] of their industrial counterparts and treated independently, because they simply do not pose a significant risk to environment or amenity.

The HSUS has investigated several large industrial farms and found them guilty of inhumane treatment of pigs.

In connection with the environmental problems involved in livestock production, the EU 2010 / 75 / EC Directive, also known as the IED (Industrial Emissions Directive), seeks to regulate all forms of emission into the atmosphere, water and soil coming from intensive livestock farms (farms with a population of over 40,000 hens, 2,000 fattening pigs or 750 sows), and makes the obtaining of comprehensive environmental authorisation compulsory.

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.

According to the article: «This virus has been evolving for a long time, no doubt aided in its transformation by the ecology of industrial - scale pig farming in North America.»

If Americans want to consume vast quantities of cheap, factory - farmed cow and chicken and pig flesh, then there simply must be an unending supply of cheap factory - farmed grain to feed the animals, and an unending supply of cheap fossil fuels to power industrial agriculture, and the anthropogenic global warming associated with the CO2 and methane emissions from industrial animal agriculture must simply not be real.