Hog Wild: Factory Farms Are Poisoning Iowa’s Drinking Water Millions of pigs are crammed into overcrowded barns all across the state, being fattened for slaughter while breeding superbugs all to feed China’s growing appetite for Spam. nn By Ted Genoways | Fri Mar. 21, 2014 3:00 AM PDT Tim Geers/Flickr […]
Are We Becoming China’s Factory Farm? US hog operations are feeding more than a billion people’s growing appetite for pork. China is in the midst of a love affair with pork. Its consumption of the stuff has nearly doubled since 1993 and just keeps rising. The Chinese currently eat […]
Farm seeks OK on change to permit Dozens attend manure-application hearing By Ryan McGeeney Posted: March 26, 2014 at 5 a.m. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RYAN MCGEENEY Photo: John Bailey (from left), head of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s water division permits branch, discusses technical aspects of the nutrient management plan designed by […]
http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/28/waterkeepers-governor-declare-state-emergency-pig-deaths-ped/nn Waterkeepers Urge Governor to Declare State of Emergency on Pig Deaths from PED John Deike | February 28, 2014 10:02 am On Thursday, Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers called on the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler, to protect public and environmental health against the swine industry’s […]
Arkansas Democrat Gazette Guest column A factory farm’s effect on tourism By GORDON WATKINS SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE This article was published March 23, 2014 at 3:35 a.m. Arkansas is the Natural State, or at least that’s how it’s advertised. Over the years, millions of tax dollars have been […]
Dear Governor Beebe, March 21, 2014 Many concerned citizens attended the Big Creek Research & Extension Team’s seminar led by Dr. Andrew Sharpley at the U of A on March 11, 2014. Like most Arkansans, it was our understanding that the state-funded study was initiated to ease fears of C&H polluting nearby […]
National Parks Traveler Magazine Essential Paddling Guide: Can Hogs Be Farmed Safely Upstream Of Buffalo National River?Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on March 24, 2014 – 6:53am What threat does a commercial hog farm pose to the Buffalo National River? nn Often the health of our rivers, lakes, and streams in the […]
‘Shut down’ if it pollutes By Mike MastersonThis article was published March 15, 2014 Gov. Mike Beebe told several members at a protest last week that the controversial hog factory (that his state agency wrongheadedly permitted in the Buffalo National River watershed) would be “shut down” if it pollutes the precious […]
From the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway, AR:nn Mosby: Hog farm and the Buffalo River Posted: March 15, 2014 – 11:23am Several aspects of the significant controversy over the hog farm near the Buffalo River disturb us. One, the foremost, is a potential threat to this Arkansas and national gem – […]
The Opinion Pages The Unhealthy Meat MarketMARCH 12, 2014 Nicholas Kristof Where does our food come from? Often the answer is Tyson Foods, America’s meat factory. Tyson, one of the nation’s 100 biggest companies, slaughters 135,000 head of cattle a week, along with 391,000 hogs and an astonishing 41 million chickens. Nearly […]
By JAIME ADAME ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEPosted: March 12, 2014 at 6 a.m.University of Arkansas researchers will use radar technology and work with outside experts to monitor any environmental effects of a large new hog farm on the “fairly pristine” Big Creek watershed, the group told a packed-house crowd Tuesday. About 150 […]
Governor’s Conference on Tourism Should Address C & H Hog Farms Impacts on Buffalo National River, Local Economy Coalition Opposed to Factory Hog Farm to Join Rally Outside Conference On March 11, Arkansas’ Governor Beebe will speak at the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism. Simultaneously, outside the conference, […]
National Parks Conservation Association Park Advocate Magazine Posted on: March 3 2014nn State of Arkansas Wastes Taxpayer Money in Flawed Water Monitoring Study By Emily Jones, Senior Program Manager, Southeast Region The fight to protect the Buffalo National River from an industrial hog farm continues to twist and turn, much […]
Addendum issued for Big Creek first quarterly report Newton County Times Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:00 am FAYETTEVILLE The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Big Creek Research and Extension Team has issued an addendum to the first quarterly report on its study of a hog farm in the Buffalo […]
The Big Creek Research & Extension Team’s seminar on its study of the hog farm in the Buffalo River watershed has been rescheduled for 3 p.m., Tuesday, March 11. The seminar will be held in the Hembree Auditorium of the Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences building on the University of Arkansas […]
Is it profiling?By Mike MastersonPosted: March 4, 2014 at 2:26 a.m. Questions for candidatesIn the ongoing campaign for governor between Republican Asa Hutchinson and Democrat Mike Ross, I believe each candidate during their statewide campaign stops should be asked some simple yet hardball questions about the state’s wrongheaded permitting of […]