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Article: Is the pork you eat raised in a sewer?
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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A discussion of the science linking sewer pipes and hog confinement buildings
We have unwittingly loosed an environmental disaster upon ourselves. We have inadvertently adopted parts of the sewer industry's technology for our hog confinement systems without the federally required safeguards or the end sewage treatment process. We have taken a system used to transport raw sewage and inappropriately adopted it to raise meat for human consumption. It is my claim that if you eat pork raised in confinement, you are eating pork raised in a sewer pipe.
As you can see by the drawing on the next page, both a sewer pipe and a hog confinement building are closed ...