This week's URLs are actually last week's, except last week I was at
the Rural Life Gathering at Sinsinawa, WI, at the Rural Life
Gathering. In the past three days I've had two farmers, a citizen,
and a Wisconsin legislator ask me for leads to resources on factory
farming, including information, activist strategies, and examples of
successful campaigns. Here's what a 30-minute tango with AltaVista
turned up.
Resource site on factory farming:
"Iowa Hog Confinement" site, loads o links: (no sausage jokes,
please)
http://www.salamander.com/~manyhogs/index.html
Articles:
Biological diversity and factory farming (Greens article, promotes
small-scale livestock operations)
http://www.insular.com/~tmc/politics/green_plat/p_biol.html
Boycott Pork Now (source???)
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5962/
Brian de Vore (LSP) article on alternatives to factory farming in MN:
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/minn.html
Critique of India's new (late 1995?) livestock policy, by Vandana
Shiva (argues for "diversity based decentralised livestock
economy")
http://www.mcspotlight.org/campaigns/countries/ind/shiva_ecocide.html
The Environment and Factory Farms
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/hwenv.html
Family farmers pressure Pork Producers Council to refund
checkoff money (PPC pressure to move to factory farming)
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/nppc2.html
Hog Wars: The Corporate Grab for Control of the Hog Industry and How
Citizens Are Fighting Back (Missouri Rural Crisis Center)
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/hwnow2.html
Intensive poultry farming: fouling the environment (not sure who
SUMERIA is--there's info there on another issue I'm following and
will share soon with y'all)
http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/anim/hens.html
People vs. corporate farms
http://www.ilsr.org/columns/28March95.html
Interestingly, of the first 100 (of 400) hits on "factory farming,"
the huge majority (at least 70%) were about animal rights, animal
rights activism, and vegetarian issues.
So, next, searching on "corporate farming" got me 100 hits. Most of
them Farmers Union voting records. Plus:
More on the northern Missouri hog actions:
http://www.mdn.org/1995/STORIES/HOGS1.HTM
http://www.mdn.org/1995/STORIES/HOGS2.HTM
http://www.mdn.org/1995/STORIES/AGRI.HTM
http://www.mdn.org/1995/INDEX/BEATA.HTM
http://www.mdn.org/1995/STAFF/MIHALOPD.HTM
The Pulitzer Prize-winning articles on NC's factory hog operations
from the Raleigh News & Observer:
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/public-service/works/
Links to these articles (Feb. 95) cover:
Hog waste is polluting the groundwater
Corporate takeover
Murphy's law (Congressman Wendell Holmes Murphy)
Hog-tied on ethics
Money talks
Pork barrels
When hogs come first (editorial)
[By the way, the www.pulitzer.org site kicks major tuchus. Prune the
URL back to that and check it out.]
"Concentration poses new threats, problems for family farmers," IATP
newsletter 10/94
http://ekolserv.vo.slu.se/Docs/www/Periodicals/SustAgWeek/sagw_03_19
Prairie Fire Rural Action Alert 3/96, Senate passes HOG bills, House
next
http://www.salamander.com/~manyhogs/pf031596.html
The (MN) Law Office Business Guide: Agricultural Law
http://www.thelawoffice.com/LLA/MN/B06.HTM#160
(including "corporate farming")
Iowa General Assembly, livestock production study report (1996)
http://www2.legis.state.ia.us/GA/76GA/Interim/1995/comminfo/liveprod/
final95.htm
(Note how long this URL is!)
I did not get to search on "industrial/ized agriculture" or other
related terms. Too late, too tired, and I'm sitting here once again
cussing Bill Gates and Windows 95 after multiple serial General
Protection Faults and lockups. That's not a bug, it's a feature.
peace
misha
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