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Smithfield Pig Abuse

Resistance to Factory Pig Farming Gathers Steam

Tracy Worcester | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Pig Cruelty, Pork-Production, Agriculture, Pigs, Pig Business, Factories, Pig Farming, Agribusiness, Smithfield, Smithfield Pig Abuse, Green News
Tracy Worcester

Between 2005 and 2009, I made Pig Business by tracking US pork giant Smithfield Foods, Inc. as it swept into Poland and took advantage of cheap labor, poorly enforced environmental laws, and a government fragile in its post-communist years.

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Your Holiday Ham -- Raised on Suffering, Salmonella and Drugs?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Usda, Factory Farming, Cafo, Antibiotics, Russia, Salmonella, Pork, Listeria, Antibiotics in Meat, Park Slope Food Coop, Smithfield Animal Cruelty, Smithfield Pork, Smithfield Pig Abuse, Home News
David Kirby

Pig producers who sell meat to Russia must wean their animals off antibiotics at least two weeks prior to slaughter. Japan requires a four-week flush-out period. This begs the question, what do the Russians and Japanese know about meat that we don't?

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