You’ve seen disturbing images and videos of factory farm animals being forced to live in the absolute worst of conditions, but a new overhead video captured by a spy drone reveals a whole new sector of disturbing factory farm activity.
Caught on tape and unveiled in the video and images below, drone operator Mark Devries says that the apparent ‘lake’ residing on the factory farm compound is in fact a large holding body of feces, urine, and who knows what else. Check out some of these photos captured from the drone:
Once again, these are not images of water, but instead large ‘lakes’ of feces and other animal waste. According to Devries, these massive dumps are filled by ‘sewage systems’ that drain the animal waste into the area. And this is just one part of this factory farm system by Murphy-Brown, a subdivision of Smithfield Farms — the largest pork producer in the United States.
Thousands of similar factory farms exist in just North Carolina alone, giving you an idea of how prevalent these corporate farms have become. And the ‘feces lake’ is really just the beginning.
As the drone video’s extended YouTube premiere explains, there are serious health consequences for those nearby (not to mention those eating factory farm livestock that are injected with antibiotics and growth hormones).
According to the drone operator and experts interviewed regarding the factory farm’s practices, lower income households around the mega farm are forced to be drenched in pig waste in what has been dubbed ‘environmental injustice.’
Steve Wing, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, went on record in describing the farm’s disposal of the ‘feces lake’:
“It can, I think very correctly, be called ‘environmental racism’ or ‘environmental injustice’ that low-income people, people of color, bear the brunt of these practices.”
Sadly, we have seen numerous reports and studies revealing the extent by which factory farms are in fact threatening our health and the planet at large. It may come as no surprise to know that factory farming produces a whopping 100 times more waste than the United States population at large.
As whistleblowers and concerned farmers begin to speak out and expose the true nature of the factory farming complex, real change will be forced to occur. When the general public sees how their food supply is truly being raised (and how the US government is fully subsidizing it), corporations will be forced to adopt new practices.
But in order to generate concern among the public, it’s essential that they first become aware of these issues. Spread the word by sharing this disturbing article via social media and initiate the change.
This is a huge lie.
If pork is and “the risk of contamination of feeds”, because the factors of production then it used together people from contaminated meat, so all the diseases of viral, bacterial infection .All enjoy.
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And the risk of contamination of feeds elsewhere. For example, Ebola in Africa. But, the hunger.
And because of the dangers of not using it.
Research and risks must be measured that against of used the public.
Do this the course is assessed by qualified personnel ?
Obviously English is not your strong suit; your comment is nonsensical, at best. Did you use translation software, or just skip a lot of school?
while ima eghlima’s English isn’t good, there’s no need to be petty and cruel adding: “…at best” and “Did you use translation software, or just skip a lot of school?”
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““It can, I think very correctly, be called
‘environmental racism’ or ‘environmental injustice’ that low-income
people, people of color, bear the brunt of these practices.”
this is not about racism or about social class whatsoever, let’s not get distracted from the real issue: that they’re doing this in the first place. Sure that may be a symptom but that’s Invisible, nonexistent in comparison to the grim reality of factory farms. If they didn’t exist, NO ONE would have to bear the consequences.
OMG! They’re spraying manure on the fields! It’s a good thing organic farmers don’t use… eh wait…never mind.
manure is good only when it’s from healthy animals.
Organic farmers use composted manure. Not the same. So, yes, mind.
I think the protesters are protesting the wrong thing (police officers) …they need to be protesting the government as well as big corporations for environmental racism.
Forced on “people of color”? Come to Tennessee, we don’t discriminate or have private feces lakes. Knowing that perhaps you should ask yourself why it is that nobody that is from here actually eats the fish from lakes, rivers and streams these days. We just watch the transplants eat them.
Do yourself a favor, Canadian_skeptic is a GMO troll. It won’t respond to a real debate happening in its name, it is on here just to piss real concerned people off. The name itself “Canadian_skeptic” was chosen by a panel to have an effect at luring people into debate. I’m doing a whole article on “Canadian_skeptic” the troll. Not a real person, just a corporation. Relax, go spend time with your family, don’t let this robot lure you in. Ask it its name or locale, or for a website, or even email, you’ll get nothing.
Where exactly is this?
“And this is just one part of this factory farm system by Murphy-Brown, a subdivision of Smithfield Farms — the largest pork producer in the United States.”
Smithfield Farms aka Smithfield Foods aka Smithfield are the same company and was purchased by mainland China’s WH Group in September, 2013. WH Group is a global corporation with headquarters in Hong Kong; Shuanghui Group (Shineway Group), Luohe, Henan, People’s Republic of China; Smithfield Foods, Smithfield, Virginia; and, Campofrio Food Group, Madrid, Spain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods
http://www.wh-group.com/en/products/global_portfolio.php
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/smithfield.asp
u have got to be shitting me
nice.
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