Factory Farms Pollute the Environment and Poison Drinking Water

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The polar opposite of a factory farm.
A pig herder in Romania.
Photo by PetrS.

Hog waste can contain potentially dangerous pathogens, pharmaceuticals and chemicals. 
Story here.

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                                                   "In Hogs We Trust."  

A critique of Manitoba’s “runaway” hog industry.

By Larry Powell.

Part 1 - Antibiotic Overuse.

Part 11 - The price we pay for corporate pig$. 

Part 111 - From Malaysia to Manitoba - the global magnitude of livestock diseases.

Part 1V - The health and environmental costs of an expanded hog industry.

Part V - What’s behind Manitoba’s drive to expand?