Posts Tagged industrial agriculture

Undercover Video Footage Reveals Cruelty At One Of Nation's Largest Pork Producers (Video)

“Mercy for Animals, an animal welfare group, has revealed undercover video, with footage shot between April and June, of the cruel conditions at Iowa Select Farms, one of the largest pork producers in the U.S. The group is using the footage to try and convince officials at stores like Costco, Kroger and Safeway to stop buying pork from the farm.

Huffington Post reports, “The effort seemed to be working as several chains viewed the video and then either halted purchases from the targeted Iowa hog farm or expressed concern even before Chicago-based Mercy for Animals formally unveiled the recording at news conferences planned Wednesday in four cities.”

Undercover Video Footage Reveals Cruelty At One Of Nation’s Largest Pork Producers (Video) via Jaymi Heimbuch – Treehugger

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Is This Megadairy A Threat to Health and Livelihood of NW Illinois Residents?

“My guest today is Matthew Alschuler, press agent for HOMES [Helping Others Maintain Environmental Standards] Jo Daviess County, in far NorthWest Illinois. Welcome to OpEdNews, Matthew. Your organization is involved in something big right now. Would you like to tell our readers about it?

Sure! In December of 2007, a number of my neighbors learned that A.J. Bos, a California millionaire, was planning to build the largest industrial dairy east of the Mississippi near our homes. Jo Daviess County is dotted with traditional family farms, some of which have been in the same family for over 150 years. Agriculture and tourism are our county’s main industries, and this facility, with its 11,000 cows on a few hundred acres, threatened to destroy them both.”

Is This Megadairy A Threat to Health and Livelihood of NW Illinois Residents? via Joan Brunwasser – OpEd News

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