tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post4635197577369101773..comments2024-02-21T12:23:30.416-06:00Comments on PLANET IN PERIL: In Hogs We Trust. Part 11Graham Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678179625435076216noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-25915053711125884322021-01-26T18:11:42.602-06:002021-01-26T18:11:42.602-06:00Pigs are eaten more than any other animal on this ...Pigs are eaten more than any other animal on this planet of approx. 8 billion meat eaters. Cant go wrong doing everything you can to hang onto a commodity serving that kind of market minus a few vegetarians, (estimated at around 8% globally.)leybrabearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04956413837854204844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-49267949747082883252021-01-25T10:27:57.093-06:002021-01-25T10:27:57.093-06:00The icing on the cake costs of localized taxpayer ...The icing on the cake costs of localized taxpayer bailouts, localized extreme water pollution & localized land pollution from this industry, is that their products are being produced for other countries. E.g. China with a limitless 1.5 billion population pork appetite & Japanleybrabearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04956413837854204844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-16308647951864532882018-06-13T10:29:10.609-05:002018-06-13T10:29:10.609-05:00Hear the latest? (June 13-2018) The hog barons in ...Hear the latest? (June 13-2018) The hog barons in the States are now lobbying for still more money from taxpayers there! Why? They want public funds to help them set up a vaccine bank in case of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease! Could we be on the threshold of yet another rampant disease (like PED) that could against spread to Canada and devastate herds, here? You be the judge. Why policy -makers seem So prepared to embrace an industry that is so obscenely wasteful and prone to the ravages of such disease, remains a mystery to me. Larry Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07786626445150051155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-62753898747991705272017-11-26T11:46:26.117-06:002017-11-26T11:46:26.117-06:00Thank you Larry for " The Price We Pay for Co...Thank you Larry for " The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs"<br />Over half a billion dollars in payouts. !<br />The irony in all of these "payouts" ( by us, the taxpayers) is the <br />more WE subsidies this pork Industry, the more we will have<br />to spend on cleaning up the added pollution and protection for<br />our water and environment. <br />Which doesn't make a great deal of "Common Sense" <br />In fact, it doesn't make any sense at all.John Fefchaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-34149741036734911582017-11-26T10:37:56.620-06:002017-11-26T10:37:56.620-06:00Thank you Larry for " The Price We Pay for Co...Thank you Larry for " The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs"<br />Over half a billion dollars in payouts. !<br />The irony in all of these "payouts" ( by us, the taxpayers) is the <br />more WE subsidies this pork Industry, the more we will have<br />to spend on cleaning up the added pollution and protection for<br />our water and environment. <br />Which doesn't make a great deal of "Common Sense"<br />John Fefchaknoreply@blogger.com