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This blog is set up to display and comment on the dirty and unnecessary practices of the food industry. Specifically the cattle aka slaughterhouses and the farming practices.

Friday, April 30, 2010

Pigs and their destructive waste


As everybody knows, livestock produces waste. The question is, what do farmers do with the waste? Their is a multitude of ways farmers could dispose of such waste, but like all businesses they look for the cheapest solution. In this case, dumping the hog waste in an open-air lagoon. The issue with such a disposal method is when these lagoons overflow from rain the flow into nearby streams and creeks used for human consumption.

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