Sentences with phrase «pig farming operation»

Over at The Independent, the new head of the Soil Association, Helen Browning, explains why her team won't back down in the face of libel threats from a gigantic pig farming operation: «I think most people are trying to make their way in life the best way they can, with different views and perspectives on things.

Not exact matches

The company's operations include pig farming, pork processing plants and feedmills spread over agricultural and commercial freehold land.

«Sow stalls» are typically used in factory farming operations across the country to confine and isolate mother pigs during pregnancy.

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

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.

The operation itself, as I've indicated is what we call farrow to finish, so this breeder has his own sows on the farm which have young pigs which he keeps on the farm, grows them out and their only exit from the farm on a rotational basis as the young pigs come through the older pigs meet market weight, and they are shipped out for slaughter as their end destination.

On our farm, we raise corn and soybeans, run a show pig operation, and breed the finest in AKC Registered Show or Pet Great Danes, French Bulldogs and Irish Wolfhounds.

And travelers who are interested in seeing pigs can also look into visiting a rescue operation such as Farm Sanctuary or Animal Place..

The grounds and the scale of his operation are amazing, and so is his studio, where the «First Marks» series is receding behind newer works, where chicken coops are migrating off the farm directly onto his canvases, and narratives take the form of the artist wrestling with Abe, his 800 - pound aging great boar who has fathered most of his heritage - line pigs while serving as a complicated alter - ego and muse to the artist.