Whole Hog in the Washington Post

Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN@nal.usda.gov)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:41:34 -0400

See the article in Sunday's Washington Post on the proposed third-largest
hog farm in the world:

http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-04/04/040l-040499-idx.ht
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The introduction is pasted here:

Despite Stink, Hog Farm Proceeds on Tribal Land

By William Claiborne
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 4, 1999; Page A03

What eventually will become the third-largest hog farm in
the world is rising
on tribal trust land near a remote Indian reservation in
South Dakota in
spite of strong opposition by the federal government,
environmentalists,
animal rights activists and a coalition of tribal members
and other local
residents.

Work is underway on cavernous feeding barns for the $105
million facility,
which is designed to house 859,000 hogs near the Rosebud
Sioux
Reservation 150 miles southeast of Rapid City. The work
resumed last
month after a federal judge accused the federal
government's top Indian
official of abusing his discretionary powers and acting in
an "arbitrary and
capricious" manner when he ordered work stopped on
environmental
grounds.

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