Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) is similar to cyanide in toxicity. It is also prevalent in factory hog barns and when the ventilation system(s) fail, the animals inside die. They cannot survive the fumes that they absorb from the manure pits below them.
Is it any wonder that the rural residents worry and complain about this poison,that is vented out from the barns into the atmosphere. People complain about headaches and breathing difficulties, but to no avail. as the Province of Manitoba has categorized these death traps, as farming.!