Tuesday, August 7, 2018

A Third Smithfield Lawsuit Verdict Creates Alarm Among Producers


FarmJournal’s PORK

A Smithfield operation in Missouri. A Wikimedia photo. 
A third lawsuit against Smithfield Foods had found the company guilty for “unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors, flies and rumbling trucks.” A federal jury placed the fine at $473.5 million to six neighbors of pig farms. STORY HERE.

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  •                                                                            "In Hogs We Trust"  

                                           A critique of hog industry expansion in Manitoba.








1 comment:

PinP said...

Good! I wonder if Canadians will ever stand up in this way and put such enemies-of-the-environment in their place?

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