In the past 20 years the vast majority of small pork producers have given
way to big agribusiness, and the big guys resorted to regularly dosing their animals with antibiotics to keep disease from spreading through thousands of hogs kept in close quarters.
Indeed, universities and
agribusiness companies have been telling farmers for years that the only
way to survive is
to «get
bigger or get out,» and because the only
way to get
bigger is
to take over the neighbor's farm it is difficult
to feel much community when everyone is seen as a potential threat.