The Chicago Tribune has printed a four-part series on a subject I wrote about last year:
Here’s one Tribune article regarding pig polluters:
http://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/launch.aspx?pbid=3e7227b1-e3b7-4fac-aa07-5f943e58b4c5
As I read the article that landed on my doorstep today I recall the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, which exposed the production and sale of meat and the exploitation that occurred in Chicago’s stockyards. And I am reminded that big business wants a profit at any cost. The Tribune’s four-part series covers the price of pork, animal abuse, pollution, and the actual farm work.
The mishaps are not isolated. The repeated abuse in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and other pork-producing states represents an environmental catastrophe. Is cheap pork worth the price of water systems being polluted by pig manure?
– Mark Erickson
