Raising a Stink: The Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms in NebraskaU of Nebraska Press, 2003 M01 1 - 180 páginas In Nebraska, as in many states across the nation, factory farms housing tens of thousands of hogs have altered the physical, cultural, and economic landscape, and have generated complex and deeply divisive conflicts among family farmers, environmentalists, agribusinesses, and elected officials. A reporter long familiar with the controversy, Carolyn Johnsen draws on a wealth of interviews, archival material, and her own extensive experience as a journalist to present a timely, informative, and balanced account of this complicated and troubling agricultural practice?and to put a human face on its causes and consequences. ø Here everyone has a say: farmers and neighbors suffering from proximity to the factory hog farms; pork producers adopting the latest hog confinement technology in the face of fierce opposition; politicians attempting to interpret the ?science? and shape public policy in a maelstrom. The result is the story of a struggle for the heart and soul of rural America. |
Contenido
If Economics Rule | 1 |
HogWild to Expand | 13 |
Riled Up | 18 |
Home Rule | 29 |
The Legislature Weighs In | 44 |
Hog Hiltons and Initiative 300 | 56 |
A Tale of Two Counties | 68 |
The Marshal Comes to Dodge | 83 |
Pork Tenderloin at the Capitol | 95 |
Another Pass at the Legislature | 105 |
Building on Sand | 112 |
The Smell of Money | 125 |
To Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sows Ear | 135 |
Notes | 149 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Agriculture animal Antelope County Arthur County Arthur County Farrow attorney barns Beutler big hog farms bill Bohlke Brian Mogenson carcasses Carolyn Johnsen Chase County citizens corn corporate farming county board cropground Dubas economic Enterprise Partners Enterprise Partners Arthur environment family farms feed Furnas County Farms groundwater Harlan County Hayes County Hearing Transcript hog confinements hog farmers hog farms hog producers hog waste Holt County hundred hydrogen sulfide Initiative 300 interview by author Iowa lagoons land legislature Lincoln liner live livestock operations livestock producers livestock waste Mabel manure miles monitoring Nance County National Farms NDEQ Nebr Nebraska legislature Nebraska Nightly Nebraska Supreme Court neighbors Niman nitrate NPRN October odor Omaha World-Herald Partners Arthur County pigs pollution Premium Farms protect regulations Rock County Sand Livestock Systems Sand's says seepage senators smell sows state's swine telephone interview thousand hogs waste lagoons Water Quality zoning
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