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Posted: 8:39 PM Jan 12, 2009
Robert Kennedy In The East To Speak About Hog Farms
Environmental and community health advocates from North Carolina and across the country gathered at New Bern's Convention Center Monday. The event kicked off a three day national summit on concentrated animal-feeding operations.
Reporter: Christine Kennedy |
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Environmental and community health advocates from North Carolina and across the country gathered at New Bern's Convention Center Monday. The event kicked off a three day national summit on concentrated animal-feeding operations.
Chairman of the Waterkeeper Alliance and well-known environmental advocate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr spoke about the impacts of North Carolina's hog industry on the environment and public health. The summit will also feature workshops and panels on strengthening environmental protections and promoting sustainable, alternative forms of livestock production.
Kennedy says that family hog farmers are being controlled by big corporations and not being given financial help to dispose of animal waste.
An archive of on-camera interviews with neighbors, factory farm workers, and advocates on the impacts of industrial agriculture on individuals, families and communities was also presented.
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If you are growing hogs in confinement buildings on contract with a big company then the hog waste smells like bacon and eggs. If you are a neighbor to one of those confinement operations it smells like what it really is: HOCKEY
I agree with Tad . I bet Kennedy is a Veggi and does not even eat meat.
Time to wake up!!!! Stop whining about the damage being done by CAFO'S (concentrated animal feeding operations)...Visit the website NatureWorksOrganics.com, and learn just how close the answer to this problem is...You'll be glad you did....Doc...
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