Sentences with phrase «of pig farms»

According to Iowa State University, between 1980 and 2002, the number of pig farms in Iowa (the nation's pork capital) dropped from 65,000 to fewer than 10,000.

But then the waitress brings a plate of salami, his face lights up and he changes tack, telling me he's recently become a part - owner of a pig farm on the Yorke Peninsula («It's called Pork on the Yorke», he says, laughing — it's not), and that he's considering getting a piglet as a pet to follow him around at Seppeltsfield («fuck they're funny animals!»).

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«I don't think you'll ever see us return to the Old MacDonald farm with pigs and chickens and cows like I grew up on,» Gerry Ritz, the new federal minister of agriculture once said.

Feldstein went online and sourced a pump in Iowa used mainly on pig farms that could clear hundreds of gallons of water a minute, and paid to fly it in.

On any given day, families unfortunate enough to live near a pig factory farm — often low - income people of color — might suffer respiratory distress, decreased lung function, or nausea because facilities pump pig waste through sprayers onto fields.

In the beginning, the story in Animal Farm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owFarm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owfarm owner.

The restaurant company said that by next month all of its pork supply will be fed only a vegetarian diet, never be given any antibiotics, and that the farms that supply its pigs will not use gestation crates on pregnant sows.

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

Writing about the Russian Revolution's failures, Orwell imagined a rebellion led by two pigs and farm animals against their human owner that replaces him with a commune of animals running his farm.

By the end of the book, Animal Farm has been renamed Manor Farm and the ruling pigs are walking on two legs like the humans they overthrew.

At one point, the pigs claim that dissent is an attack on the entire farm instead of reasonable attempts to preserve the original goals of the farm.

Mirroring Russia, where Stalin replaced Trotsky and Lenin's vision with the Gulag camps and a system of brutal corruption and repression, one of the leading pigs ousts the other and declares him an enemy of the farm.

Russia suspended imports in February, citing concerns that cases of African swine fever among wild boars in Poland could spread to farmed pigs.

After buying their way out of indentured servitude through thrift and backbreaking work, they bought a farm and raised pigs.

Then they would have been paraded (once the bruises had faded) to make a public confession of their error, before being sent to live on a remote pig farm or perhaps executed.

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.

In Norfolk, in England, a pig farm is a network of outdoor pig houses; in America, it is a factory unit.

About The Cochon US Tour The Cochon US Tour executes a variety of unique, local food events that are focused on raising enthusiasm for supporting family farms with the world's first environmentally conscious nose - to - tail pig competition.

Thank you, Molly, that makes senses — I guess that's what happens when one rushes to a pig farm instead of a butcher!!!

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

While the Government has retained thresholds that enable an exemption from the requirement for development consent — for those farms with less than 1000 birds or 200 pigs or 20 sows — the introduction of a 500m setback from neighbouring dwellings or environmentally sensitive areas that triggers a Development Application is a major barrier for pastured pig and poultry farming on small acreages.

And yet by conflating all sizes and types of pig and poultry farms into one category, the package of reforms released by the NSW Government presents a major risk to the future of small - scale free - range pig and poultry farming.

Penny Kothe, pastured pig and poultry farmer and owner of Caroola Farm in Mulloon, notes that, «a 500m buffer means that almost all small - scale pig and poultry farms would require costly council approvals.

The Victorian Government's proposed reforms to planning controls for animal industries could mean the collapse of pastured pigs and poultry farms in Victoria.

Phil Stringer is currently managing a small mixed farm in SE Qld, running free range purebred Tamworth pigs, a small herd of cattle and growing subtropical perennial tubers along with various cut flowers and vegetables.

The Government, the VFF, and the likes of Hunt keep repeating that all pig and poultry farms have always needed to get a permit, however, they fail to acknowledge that requirement was only recently established by a VCAT case in 2015.

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.

Under the new reforms, all pig and poultry farms, regardless of size or production model, will be considered «intensive livestock agriculture.»

The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle, sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's live export trade; closer to home, in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...

The pig farm tours are just one of the ways the Minnesota Pork Board gets their message to the public.

The Cochon US Tour executes a variety of unique, local food events that are focused on raising enthusiasm for supporting family farms with the world's first environmentally conscious nose - to - tail pig competition.

The list of heritage dishes featured include wood roasted duck, assorted cuts of dry - aged beef and Tartare Bar from Creekstone Farms, spit roasted local rabbit, roasted goat, raw oysters and roasted clams, octopus with chorizo, sturgeon, and many variations of heritage breed pig with artisan cheeses and heirloom vegetables which are all paired with the best beverages.

The list of heritage and heirloom foods to be featured include dry - aged beef from Creekstone Farms, whole pigs, lambs, goat, lobster, squab, rabbit, duck, chicken, artisan cheeses, oysters and heirloom vegetables paired with the best beverages.

Not only do the farms raise pigs in a natural way in open pens, but also the farmers feed them grain they farm themselves, which allows for higher - quality, well - monitored feed free of animal byproducts that might contaminate the pigs.

The business is almost completely self - contained, controlling the value chain from the production of pig feed; pig farm, slaughterhouse and meat processing; product development; marketing and sales; and nationwide chilled distribution.

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?

The measure bans the intensive confinement of breeding pigs and veal calves in tiny crates on corporate factory farms, where the animals can not turn around or stretch their limbs.

(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.

Unlike food animals which are «produced» on farms, such as cows and pigs, kangaroos are shot in the bush by people ranging from recreational to professional hunters, free of any oversight or scrutiny.

Animals Australia has been at the forefront of national public awareness campaigns highlighting the suffering endured by mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates in factory farms.

In order to get from farm to fork, pigs require fresh water for things like feed, drinking and processing during the final stages of production.

It was great, the food was flawless as always and, well, even though I could be further from a farm today, I still can't get smell those chickens and pigs out of my nose.

«By starting to use eggs from hens not confined in cruel battery cages and pork from pigs not crammed into tiny gestation crates, Sonic has taken an important first step forward for animal welfare,» said Paul Shapiro, senior director of The HSUS» factory farming campaign.

«We applaud Hillshire for moving to improve conditions for pigs in its supply chain,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds the announcement from Hillshire Brands, owner of Hillshire Farms, Ballpark, Jimmy Dean and State Fair meat brands that it will eliminate controversial gestation crates — cages used to confine breeding pigs — from its pork supply chain, becoming the latest in a growing list of major food companies to address this issue.

«We applaud Bruegger's Bagels for its work to improve the lives of pigs in the pork industry,» stated Josh Balk, corporate policy director of farm animal protection for The HSUS.

The effort also follows the May 2012 release of undercover footage taken by The HSUS at a pig factory farm that supplied animals to Tyson Foods.

«Individual consumers and major food companies alike have sent the message loud and clear that they don't support forcing pigs to spend their lives crammed inside cages so small they can't even turn around,» said Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection for The HSUS.

«Sound science and consumer sentiment support a move away from immobilizing pigs in crates so small they can't even turn around,» stated Paul Shapiro, vice president of farm animal protection at The HSUS.

«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.