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Search results for "hogs" ...
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Mentally ill janitor dies after being tasered, hog tied by police
A janitor died after being tasered by police and had a placed a restricted oxygen mask with out an oxygen source, violating medical protocol. Surveillance footage showed the man had only been holding a soda bottle. The tapes also contradicted the report that the police chief gave.
Tags: medical; "anti-spitting device"; tasers; police; firemen
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"Permit process at center of hog farm controversy"
A South Carolina hog farmer - after receiving advice from state officials - deceived the public about the size of the farm he wanted to build and told county officials to not talk about the topic.
Tags: Agriculture; farms; hogs; pigs; South Carolina; regulations
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Pork and Politics
Using hidden cameras, this investigation looks at the treatment of animals at hog/dog rodeos in Clarke County, Alabama. What they found was a case of animal cruelty. Using FOI requests, the reporter found that law enforcement, politicians, and prosecutors were aware of what was going on, but refused to take blame and uphold the law.
Tags: hog/dog rodeos; animal cruelty; hidden camera; FOIA; Clarke County; Alabama
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Raising a Stink: The Struggle over Factory Hog Farms in Nebraska
This book explores the environmental, cultural, political and economic themes surrounding the controversy over factory hog farms in Nebraska. It traces the history of hog production and analyzes the effects of factory farms.
Tags: BOOK
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The Most Important Fish In The Sea
Discover reports on the decline of a fish called menhaden, one of the most important links in the food chain. Menhaden are used as high protein feed for chicken, cattle and hogs. Many larger fish consumed by humans feed on menhaden. The decline in their numbers is cause for alarm. Not only is the food chain suffering, but the algae and detritus which menhaden feed on now clogs inland waters. "Since market forces are unlikely to curtain the menhaden fishery, governments may have to take action," Discover reports.
Tags: food chain; environment; menhaden
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Pig Out
A study of Seaboard Corp., the world's third-largest pork producer, based in Merriam, Kan. The company says it enriches communities while local groups argue that Seaboard lowers per capita income, drives up crime and creates pollution. There is an ongoing EPA investigation into Seaboard, and the company has been fined for several documented spills and sued by state departments, the Sierra Club and private individuals. The article gives a detailed description of hog farming.
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Feeding the World, poisoning the planet
In just the past two decades, industrialization, population growth and intense use of chemical fertilizers have doubled the amount of nitrogen in circulation among living things...And this sudden explosion of nitrogen has meant mounting worldwide environmental problems that promise to soon get worse and, some scientists predict, to reach the point of calamity." Some examples: More frequent algae blooms (red tides) kill fish and other sea life in coastal waters, invasive plants take over prairies in Minnesota, acid rain in the Blue Ride Mountains, visibility impaired in waters near the Great Barrier Reef, forest mushrooms disappear in Holland.
Tags: nitrogen; environment; water; red tide; algae; seafood; sewage; fishing; "dead zones"; praires; fertilizer; ammonia; farming; sea grass; Baltic; blue crabs; sea grass; agriculture; scallops; monk seals; sea lions; shrimp; hogs; Lake Pontchartrain
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No Act of God
Amicus Journal looks at the damage caused when Hurricane Floyd flooded hog and poultry farms in North Carolina contaminating rivers and wells.
Tags: pollution; hog farms; North Carolina; Hurricane Floyd
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"Hog Farm Plans Cause a Big Stink"
This two-part series examines the pros and cons of a controversial shift in area agriculture, the corporatization of hog farming.
Tags: mega-hog farms; Knox County; environment; livestock; technology
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The Florida Hog Trail Killings
This report investigates the murders of six men whose bodies were found nude and within a 10-mile radius in Florida between 1994 and 1997. The report also details the police investigation, which consists of wired undercover officers posing as gay transients. The reporters re-interviewed witnesses, visited the body dump sites and conducted investigations of the events surrounding the serial murders.
Tags: serial murders; crime; murder