Sentences with phrase «of hog farms»

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.

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

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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.

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.

Many of them allow you to buy quarter - and half - hogs directly from the farm, thereby bringing the cost down significantly.

At Rodale Institute, Ross is responsible for field maintenance including planting and seeding, maintaining the farm equipment necessary to work the fields, and expanding the livestock operations, particularly the vertical integration of the poultry and hog operations into crop rotations.

Participating chefs include Justin Yu (Oxheart), Kyle Bailey (Birch & Barley), Mark Ladner (Del Posto), Justin Brunson (Old Major), Mike Kahikina (Barrel & Ashes), Adam Sobel (RN74), Jose Mendin (Pubbelly), Andrew Zimmerman (Sepia), Kim Wiss (Antica Napa Valley), Peter Jacobsen (Jacobsen Orchards), Greg Laketek (West Loop Salumi), John Manion (La Sirena Clandestina), Jeremy Waybright (Boss Shepherd's), Matthew Accarrino (SPQR), Michael Thiemann (Mother — Empress Tavern), Jason Kupper (Heritage Eats), Joshua Schwartz / Tony Incontro (Del Dotto), Eric Alegria (Old World Rabbitry), David Bazirgan (Dirty Habit), David Katz (Panevino / Sub Rosa Salumi), Dennis Lee (Smokestack / Namu Ganji), Robin Song (Hog & Rocks), Marc Zimmerman (Alexander's Steakhouse), James Winberg, Mike Brown, & Bob Gerken (Travail Kitchen & Amusements), Cristiano Creminelli (Creminelli), Chris Marchino (Cotagna), Alex Lovick (Inglenook), Blaise Bisbey (Calistoga Kitchen), John Stewert & Duskie Estes (Zazu Restaurant and Farm), Joey Elenterio (Cadence), Tiffany Friedman (Butter Root), Trevor Kunk (Press), Omri Afalo (Wayfare Tavern), Rogelio Garcia (Angele), Anthony «Nash» Cognetti (Tra Vigne), Dave the Butcher (Marina Meats), Brandon Sharp (Solbar), Joshua Whigham of DC, Brad Farmerie (The Thomas), John Sundstrom (The Lark) and Timon Balloo (Sugarcane / Bocce Bar).

One bite and I was convinced we needed to buy a hog from this family farm that had already gotten plenty of our meat - buying money this year (we split one of their quarter cows with friends).

The Creekstone Farms program is unique to the industry because it combines superior Black Angus & Duroc genetics, exceptional cattle and hog management practices, carefully controlled high - quality feeding and state - of - the - art processing.

• 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

However, 100 percent of purchased hogs come from independent farms that are PQA Plus Certified.

«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.

Hog Island Oyster Farm, Marshall, CA There's a Hog Oyster Bar in San Francisco, but it's 49 miles north of the city at the Hog Island oyster farm itself that the best bivalve eating is to be foFarm, Marshall, CA There's a Hog Oyster Bar in San Francisco, but it's 49 miles north of the city at the Hog Island oyster farm itself that the best bivalve eating is to be fofarm itself that the best bivalve eating is to be found.

Sponsors were comprised of the American Humane Association, Chase Family Cellars, Chateau Ste. Michelle, Creekstone Farms, Domaine Serene, Forever Cheese, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, Leidy's, Rain Crow Ranch, Rodney Strong Vineyards, Hawaiian Hog Incorporated, Springer Mountain Farms, Wüsthof, Mercedes - Benz, Stella Artois and Visa Signature.

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.

Meanwhile, at the Spring Valley Nature Center, three hogs will soon be out of temporary housing with the completion of a new shed at the Volkening Heritage Farm.

Iowa Republican Senate hopeful Joni Ernst took YouTube by storm with perhaps the most memorable video of the cycle, an ad where she announces she «grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm» and would apply pork - cutting to Washington's spending to «make «em squeal.»

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

Every week, this swollen structure turns 400,000 gallons of liquid hog waste into biogas that fuels the farm.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

At Prestage Farms in Oklahoma, which sells hogs to Seaboard Corp, workers place pieces of rope into pig pens for hogs to bite.

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.

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.

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

The Japanese locate their tofu factories very close to animal farms because more than 95 % of the okara (soybean pulp) is fed to animals (mostly hogs and dairy cows) and about 4 % of the okara becomes fertilizer (compost) because it is fairly rich in nitrogen and trace minerals.

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.»

Level of exposure was calculated based on proximity to hog farms, the size of the farms, and how much manure the farm in question used.

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.

State Question 777 would allow a large and poorly run hog operation to move in next door to your family's farm, and there will be no recourse for the contamination of your water or the depletion of your resources.

«We were a pretty typical corn, soybean, hog and cattle farm for most of the early years,» says Miller.

Responsibility for one's animals here hasn't always been a high priority, plus we have a higher percentage of farm dogs and cats, and of course, hog dogs, coon dogs, and some world - famous Foxhound packs.

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

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During college, Dr. Riddick worked at a hog farm and managed a barn of horses at summer camp.

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

Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic digester that could capture methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricFarm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic digester that could capture methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricfarm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricity.

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

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.

The concert itself has also become, in part, a celebration of greener food: according to the AP, fans had choices such as»... organic beer, pork sandwiches from a Missouri family's hog farm, soy milk and $ 9 organic hamburgers» at the show.

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.

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.