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As America's pig, cattle and poultry farms have become bigger and more efficient, so have fears of the effect on their surroundings. Some 450,000 of America's 1.3 million livestock farms qualify as "confined feeding operations" (a poultry farm, for example, with more than 30,000 hens).
About 19,000 farms are designated as "concentrated animal feeding operations," with more than 100,000 hens, 700 dairy cows or 2,500 pigs. The question is how best to police these enormous flesh generators.See the full content of this document
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The Economist
IN two long buildings in Carroll County, Indiana, some 8,000 pigs are doing what they do best: eating, defecat...See the full content of this document
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