Corporate hog farms clean up

US - In the early 1990s, the hog giants came to Missouri promising economic salvation for areas of the state hardest hit by the losses of jobs and population. Mega-farms crowded out many of the small farms that punctuated Missouri’s landscape, changing our agrarian heritage forever with foul-smelling, stream-polluting and community-dividing hog factories.
calendar icon 4 March 2004
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