Sentences with phrase «large pig farm»

The boy lives in Veracruz state, which has a large pig farm that has been the subject of much controversy, the Associated Press reports.

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(Dec. 15, 2010)-- The Humane Society of the United States has released findings from an undercover investigation that documented the inhumane treatment of female breeding pigs and piglets at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.

«The message is loud and clear: the country's largest food retailers do not want to be selling pork from systems in which pigs were immobilized inside tiny cages for months on end,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of Farm Animal Protection for The HSUS.

Two of the country's largest pork producers — Smithfield Farms and Tyson Foods — have just announced they want to get rid of gestation crates, small narrow stalls used to confine mother pigs on factory fFarms and Tyson Foods — have just announced they want to get rid of gestation crates, small narrow stalls used to confine mother pigs on factory farmsfarms.

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

The mystery began when pigs on large farms in Malaysia began hacking so loudly that their owners called it a «one - mile cough.»

The proliferation of large - scale pig farming appeared to be a critical factor.

Although pig farming is a longtime practice in Malaysia, the industry had recently grown from many small family farms to include a few intensive operations that were large enough to satisfy the demand from non-Muslim communities in Malaysia, Singapore, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants, nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators, large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy industry.

«We were aerating pig slurry in very large tanks, on a farm out in North Norfolk,» she explains.

Thanks to the ability of those 40 breeds to produce massive amounts of milk, eggs and meet, there has been a worldwide explosion in their use to meet the needs of both farming communities and consumers in the developed and, increasingly, developing world For example, Vietnam boasted local breeds for 72 percent of its pigs in 1994 but by 2002 saw them drop to 26 percent of pigs, replaced in large part by the faster - growing Large Whitelarge part by the faster - growing Large WhiteLarge White pig.

Speaking of farm field preparation, the distinctive flavor of a true Smithfield country ham, the ones you need to soak for days to remove the salt, is due in large part to certain lucky pigs being let loose to clean up peanut fields post harvest.

An HSUS investigator documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer

The Farm Animal Internal Medicine service at the Veterinary Medical Center at Ohio State provides state of the art medical consultation and intensive care from board - certified large animal internists for farm animals (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, camelids, and deFarm Animal Internal Medicine service at the Veterinary Medical Center at Ohio State provides state of the art medical consultation and intensive care from board - certified large animal internists for farm animals (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, camelids, and defarm animals (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, camelids, and deer).

Her interest in large animal medicine continues as she is actively involved in 4H and has a farm with dairy goats, chickens, rabbits and the occasional cow or pig.

Anyway, the large animal clinician took several of us out to a farm in Alabama on a call to castrate a pig.

Your coursework and hands - on training will expose you to a variety of animals including small animals (cat, dogs, ferrets, birds, hamsters); zoo or exhibition animals (lions, tigers, bears and more) and large animals on farms and ranches such as horses, goats, pigs, cattle, llamas and turkeys.

A spacious farmhouse apartment, set in a large garden on a working farm, with cattle, pigs and sheep.

But it's not so nutty if some of the skeptics are referring to lessons such as those in Animal Farm, where the pigs ask for reasonable sacrifice in the beginning which keeps getting larger and by the end the animals are seen to have been better off with the humans.