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 […]