Excerpt from Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer: On Smithfield Farms, "The Smithfield pig farming operation "produces at least as much fecal waste as the entire human population of the states of California and Texas combined." His account of the conditions in which these creatures are held is deeply distressing: "Four out of five times a sow will spend the 16 weeks of her pregnancy confined in a 'gestation crate' so small that she will not be able to turn around."
Excerpt from Food, Inc. A farmer for Tyson Chickens:
"It is nasty in here, there's dust flying all over the place, there's feces everywhere. This isn't farming this is mass production, like an assembly line in a factory. When they grow from a chick and in 7 weeks you've got a 5 1/2 pound chicken their bones and internal organs can't keep up with the rapid growth. A lot of these chickens here can only take a few steps and then they plop down, that's because can't keep up with all the weight that they're carrying."
Interestingly enough, I must give credit to Cargill for opening their doors to the Oprah Winfrey Show earlier this year for a special episode with author and food activist, Michael Pollan and author/veganist Kathy Freston and showing America how meat is made: For more info: http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/blog/146461/11/02/01/kudos-cargill-showing-oprah-how-meat-made
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