The waste, pollution, disease and other risks of animal farming.
- 9 Feb 2011   email to friend  E-mail this to a Friend    Print
Recent bird flu outbreaks across Asian poultry farms and
increasing government concern over the massive fecal discharges
from livestock factory farms reveal just some of the problems
inherent in factory farming. In the case of pig farming alone,
researchers have found that these animals on average produce at
least three times as much fecal matter as humans, with harmful
pathogens that are at least 10 times more concentrated.
Canadian investigative environmental journalist Ms. Denise
Proulx, author of the book, “Pig Farms!” described several
crises of these factory farming operations, among which is the
widespread practice of spraying millions of liters of untreated
waste into the air after being stored sometimes for years in
toxic liquid holding lagoons.  Denise Proulx – Canadian
journalist, author (Porcheries!) (F): For the sake of profit,
they have allowed less space between th