Originally posted by: piasabird
The funny think is that as I travel around the state of Illinois I dont see this going on. It is not actually happening. Some farms may be getting larger but it looks like just large family farms for the most part. Lots of different kind of farms are pretty large. However, the places I have seen tend not to be enclosed buildings for raising livestock. There may be a few farms like that for raising Turkeys, or chickens.
As far as pigs go, I have driven up the mississippi and missouri rivers and seen all the Pig farms raising their stock out in the open right alongside the road. I just have not seen what they are talking about.
When you eat your thanksgving turkey do you really care how it was raised or do you buy it anyway?
While you can raise lots of vegetable and fruit and berries on your own, in most places it is illegal to have a cow or some pigs.
I think you guys need to take a drive out in the coutry once in a while to actually see how other people live! Do you ever get out of the city at all?
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Please consider educating yourself comcerning the ""Meatrix"". Their premise is 100% correct and does not hype reality at all.
Chciken, turkey and pork products you see in your local grocery in the United States are nearly universally raised, processed and shipped from corporate farms.
The greatest benefit to my state (which is a 'nation-leader') is that maybe something is finally being done with the millions of tons of animal waste that has been historically stored in open lagoons - biomass incinerators.
As wonderful as that sounds, animal waste 'incinerators' would be dirtier than newly-built coal-fired power plants.
Ain't life grand?
PS - Just a little inside tip for yah. All that 'meat' (in the case of hogs in my state, 1 billion pounds worth // chicken and turkey probably in that neighborhood) is processed by persons most likely 'not from around here' in less than perfect circumstances ...
THE CRUELEST CUTS
The human cost of bringing poultry to your table
The Charlotte Disturber
PPS - There are more than 3800 open-pit hog waste lagoons in my state - probably the same for turkey and chickens. Instead of ""The Variety Vacationland"" maybe they should call us ""The Land of 10,000 Waste Lagoons""