tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post4570202025351785718..comments2023-09-23T06:23:22.682-06:00Comments on Advocates for Agriculture: Suing Hog FarmersTroy Hadrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17729642328778709521noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post-10520118509373539872009-09-29T09:10:13.693-06:002009-09-29T09:10:13.693-06:00Law suits are not the only way Townspeople are try...Law suits are not the only way Townspeople are trying to get rid of swine farms.<br />http://www.bristoldailynews.com/bristolblog.asp <br />The DAR and MDAR are working hard to see that this bill does not make it through!DMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13689082730704240026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post-3377572561804752832009-09-26T07:55:45.810-06:002009-09-26T07:55:45.810-06:00"family farmers" with 80,000 hogs in one..."family farmers" with 80,000 hogs in one feedlot? You must be joking. <br /><br />The CEO of Wal-Mart has a family, but that doesn't mean Wal-Mart is a nice little family business. <br /><br />I can recognize the difference between the gentle aroma of cow manure thawing in the spring time on my neighbors' pasture (ah, the smell of money!) and the unhealthy, vomitous stench of thousands of creatures wallowing in their own filth in a feedlot. Pass the hot dogs.caheidelbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03261598066395322681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3531617304191579626.post-50236255721245980892009-09-23T22:13:59.622-06:002009-09-23T22:13:59.622-06:00Glad to see you got to use your favorite descripti...Glad to see you got to use your favorite descriptions of farmers again: "Honest and hard working". And I don't doubt that these "family" farms that run 140,000-head hog operations just work their fingers to the bone. All those buttons to push inside the "climate controlled" buildings with "automated feeders"... Still there's all that teeth pulling, castrating, tail docking, ear notching, and the physical stuff required to "humanly" euthanize the sick ones... <br /><br />Nonetheless, can we say really that they are "honest" if they are denying their community members peaceful enjoyment of their property? After all the flies, smell and contaminated ground water does affect their rights - does it not? And from what I've read in the complaints, the hog operations came after the original residents were already homesteaded. <br /><br />Fair is fair now, isn't it? How would you feel if your home was under odor-assult from a hog "farm" with waste from a small city of pigs? I'm quite certain you'd be protecting your property rights for the decades that it took to do such too. I know I would. And I hope these people get some kind of justice for all that's been denied them.Bea Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13981537551810309024noreply@blogger.com