Ronald Nigh wrote:
> Martha Wells wrote:
>
> (snip)
> >We live in a very rural area and more and more folk are putting in chicken
> >factories. Breaks my heart. Drive by on a remotely warm day and you can
> >smell the horrid stench of hot, dying chickens. People complain that they
> >can't sit out on their porches anymore because of the neighbors chicken
> >sheds. In Bryan (Tx) Sanderson Farms put in a large processing plant and is
> >encouraging farmers to put up brooder / broiler houses...
> >
> (snip)
>
> Dear SANET and Martha,
>
> Thank you for bringing up this very important point. This concentration of
> farming in corporate hands is the major threat to sustainability facing
> agriculture today, all over the world (even in Russia and Third World
> Countries). The US poultry industry is the epitome of "contract
> agriculture". Around 86% of poultry farms and 89% of the value of poultry
> production are contracted; five corporations control the production of
> around 226 million pounds of "poultry meat" per week. If you would like to
> hear how bad things really are from folks who are actually trapped in the
> system, take a look at this web page:
>
> http://www.web-span.com/pga/contracts/contract_farming.html
>
> Personally, though I am not a vegetarian, I will not eat this chicken. I
> consider it a major health threat to humans and I am saddened by the state
> of our country when defenders of corporate agriculture try and tell us this
> stuff is "safe". I don't think it's even edible. (Did you ever see a movie
> called "Solyent Green"?). But then I'm getting old and irrascible, like
> Bargyla, who thinks the whole wicked system is about to crash to ground!
>
> Regards,
>
> Ronald Nigh
> Dana, A.C.
> Mexico, D.F. & San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
> Tel. y FAX 525-666-73-66 (DF)
> 529-678-72-15 (Chiapas)
> danamex@mail.internet.com.mx
>
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