How do you sell factory farming? With dollar bills and nose plugs

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We allow ourselves to become immune to the suffering and inhumanity of something so sacred as the animals that feed and sustain us and it becomes that much easier to become immune to the suffering and inhumanity of people that are different from us or that we perceive as having wronged us. Jamming brown skinned muslims into gitmo and torturing them for information they don't have is the illogical next step on the continuum of jamming chickens pumped up with hormones and fed GMO feed into their own hell of deprivation and and torturing and then slaughtering them for nutrition that they barely have.
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original-foodconsumer

How do you sell factory farming? With dollar bills and nose plugs
By Martha Rosenberg
Sep 2, 2007 - 6:32:09 PM
On a hot, windy day in May, Liz and Garrett Perry of Waterloo, WI were disposing of scrap lumber at the Deer Track Park landfill near Interstate 94 when a featherless, debeaked hen limped in front of their pickup truck.

Oh that, said landfill workers. Hens often come out of the construction bins Creekwood Farm brings here with spent laying hens they've gassed.

In June, unwary canoers on Raccoon Creek near Sac City, IA paddled upon 31 dead pigs. Authorities found 100 more close by--dumped by a local farrowing operation when they died en route to the finishing facility.

Factory farming isn't just a nightmare--it's a nightmare for PR professionals trying to defend it!

Just ask Aaron Putze, executive director of Coalition to Support Iowas Farmers (CSIF), a group formed to "grow new and existing livestock enterprises and navigate regulations and siting."

A native Iowan who says he remembers when manure management was ''sloped concrete and a 3-inch rain," Putze contends that "Fifty hogs and a couple dairy cows isn't going to send kids to college today.''

But other Iowa natives regard CSIF's activities--it helped Andy Muff of Ventura upsize the family farm to a 4,000 "contract finishing operation" and Wendell Davison of Garner grow from 150 to 11,000 pigs--as not neighborly.

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1. If you are not part of the solution-you are part of the problem....nt