Meat eater Wrote:
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> factory farming. Wrote:
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> > Trader Joe's uncured spiral cut hams are very
> > good. Sadly the way we treat pigs on factory
> > farms means you are eating stressed animal
> treated
> > like shit its whole life. Go to Mom's and get
> a
> > locally sourced dead pig. Dont support factory
> > farming.
>
>
> Those pigs love it, they eat a lot of good food
> and they die without having to live in a nursing
> home.
> I too will miss the silver label ham. Those nicely
> wrapped silver hams were a tradition for Easter
> and Christmas in my family. Only the best pigs
> were allowed to be "silver label"
The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. The best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year. That would fill four Yankee Stadiums. Even when divided among the many small pig production units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, that is not a containable amount.
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pig farming is unsustainable and disgusting. Eat shit - become shit.