Thursday, March 29, 2012

How Factory Farmers Use the Media To Distort Reality and Make Them Look Good!

From Dr. Mercola (http://www.mercola.com/)
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/28/cafo-vs-organic-farm-environment.aspx?e_cid=20120328_DNL_art_2


Story at-a-glance


The Pork Producers Council has released a video that makes confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) look like idyllic family farms; in reality, these factories are among the most cruel, most polluting and most disease-ridden facilities on the planet

The vast majority of the nearly 66 million pigs raised for food in the United States are raised on CAFOs, where they are subject to mental and physical anguish, not to mention subject to incredibly unhealthy practices, like the administration of low-dose antibiotics and living in their own waste

People living near hog CAFOs are exposed to odorous emissions linked to decreased lung function, cardiovascular ailments, neurological problems, asthma, and premature death; drinking water is also often contaminated by animal waste runoff

Corporate-owned CAFOs have been highly promoted as the best way to produce food for the masses, but the only reason CAFOs are able to remain so "efficient" is because they substitute government-subsidized crops for pasture grazing; many small farms, however, produce their own forage without government assistance

To protect your health, the environment, and animal welfare, support the small family farms in your area, particularly organic farms that respect the laws of nature and use the relationships between animals, plants, insects, soil, water and habitat to create synergistic, ethical, self-supporting, non-polluting, GMO-free ecosystems

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