Just Some of the Health Problems

and Economic Issues

 

American Public Health Association
Precautionary Moratorium on New Concentrated Animal Feed Operations

 

America's Animal Factories
How States Fail to Prevent Pollution from Livestock Waste
Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network

 

 

 

Respiratory Disorders of Hog-Confinement Workers
University of Nebraska Medical Center

 

Breast Cancer in Women
Prostrate Cancer in Men
A factor in why kids go into puberty two or three years earlier

 

 

 

Environmental Injustice and the Mississippi Hog Industry
University of North Carolina and Mississippi State University

 

 

Economic Fallacies of Industrial Hog Production
University of Missouri

 

Top 10 Reasons for Rural Communities to be Concerned
About Large-scale, Corporate Hog Operations
University of Missouri

 

Books to Read::

Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know & Don't Know about Cancer
Robert N. Proctor, Basic Books, 1997

Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto
Osha Gray Davidson, University of Iowa Press, 1996