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National Pork Producers Council

Big Pork at the Government Trough -- Again

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: National Debt, House Agriculture Committee, Bailout, National Pork Producers Council, Swine Flu, Ohio, Factory Farms, Usda, Pork, H1n1, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

The public no longer wants a combination of financial bailouts and government deregulation. But Congress and the U.S.D.A. never seem to have gotten the memo when it comes to Big Agribusiness, especially the pork industry.

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Pork Lobbyists Rush To Put Lipstick On Pig Amid Swine Flu Fears

Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 06.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Pork Lobbyists, Pork Producers, National Pork Producers Council, Pork Producers and Swine Flu, Swine Flu, Pork Lobbying, Swine Flu Scare, Pork and Swine Flu, Home News

It was Day 7 of the great swine flu outbreak, and inside the eighth-floor conference room in a concrete hulk of an office building on Capitol Hill, th...

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Making Sense of the Muckslinging

Michael Markarian | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Pork, Prop 2, Proposition 2, California, Factory Farming, Animals, Smithfield Foods, Animal Rights, YES! On Prop 2, Cargill, No on Prop 2, National Pork Producers Council, Marcho Farms, Yes on Prop 2, Strauss Veal, Green News
Michael Markarian

Factory farm executives see the writing on the wall, and they know they can no longer get away with treating animals like commodities -- like nothing more than meat-producing machines.

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