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	03.14.thicke
		Industrialized, confinement hog production is a relatively new phenomenon, and in spite of what proponents say, there are better ways to raise hogs than crowding them together on concrete, feeding them a concentrated grain diet, and concentrating their manure.
		In their words, "[for hogs on pasture] good results will be secured without the addition of any mineral supplement except common salt." They talked at length about the various feed supplements needed for hogs that were not on good pasture forage.
		The hogs and feed are provided by corporations; the "farmers" are responsible for the liabilities of the buildings and manure.
	www.populist.com /03.14.thicke.html (754 words)

	Hog lot: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Hog lot
		Hog lots are large-scale confinement areas for hogs.
		Critics argue that the hog lots are too large, poorly run, inhumane, or unfriendly to family farming.
		Critics argue that this is, in large part, a result of hog lot expansion.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ho/Hog-farm.html (365 words)

	Hog lot - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		They also argue that the hog lots are destroying valuable agricultural lands.
		The typical hog lot is a series of large warehouse-like buildings surrounded by agricultural land and sometimes by liquid manure pits called 'lagoons'.
		Improving the quality of peanut fed hogs by finishing in dry lot on corn and tankage, corn and cotton seed meal, corn and velvet beans (Bulletin / Agricultural...
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /hog_lot.htm (588 words)

	Hog lot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Hog lots are large-scale confinement areas for (Domestic swine) hogs.
		The hogs themselves are also isolated from human contact with access carefully monitored and special clothing when inside the buildings.
		There is a strong trend toward hog lots in China for precisely this reason.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/hog_lot.htm (595 words)

	Hog lot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		They also that the hog lots are destroying valuable lands.
		It's within 3 miles are 6 400 000 chickens and 26 000 hogs.
		The countryside is dominated by superfarms hog lots and factory towns where people for poverty wages in unsafe and unhealthy
	www.freeglossary.com /Hog_lot (833 words)

	AFO Public Meeting -- Des Moines, IA Proceedings
		So we feel that this is absolutely necessary to keep these hog lots from going from one state to another producing their damage from one area to another.
		Hogs in Missouri were 14 cents a pound, $14 a hundredweight, $35 for a 250 pound hog and, you know, it is outrageous, Senator.
		It is not regulations that are running hog farmers out of business, it is lack of regulations that allow corporations to control entire sections of agriculture at the expense of family farmers, rural communities and the environment.
	www.epa.gov /npdes/pubs/desmoines.htm (18455 words)

	How to Do Things: Hogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Lot 2: This lot needs no attention until early next spring, when oats and rape should be seeded on it to furnish pasture for the hogs as soon as they are removed from the rye on Lot 1 in May. This will keep them supplied with pasture till the last of June.
		Lot 3: This lot should be seeded with rape about the first of May. It can be pastured from the last of June until the middle of August when the hogs are put back on Lot 2.
		Lot 4: This is a permanent pasture of alfalfa, and should be seeded the latter part of August.
	www.tumbledownfarm.com /texts/HTDT/HTDT_Hogs.html (2195 words)

	Wild Boar History
		If a snake bites a hog, due to their protective shield, the bite doesn't bother the hog (unless the hog is very small) and the snake usually ends up becoming a source of protein for the hog.
		Hogs that couldn’t be enticed by an ear of corn to the crib would be the first sought when the farmer wanted fresh meat.
		Of the sixty to one hundred hogs in the pen at that time, only two were killed but several escaped during the hunt scattering into the surrounding mountains where they met up with some piney wood rooters and freely mingled their genes with the already well blended feral domestic hog mixture common in the South.
	www.blackmouthcur.com /ha01.htm (1860 words)

	Gary Buchannon, Third Place Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		I was going to take a couple more of them hogs down there last year, but...here comes the sad part...they all died.
		I noticed one day them hogs was all getting just a little ball of mud on the ends of their tails.
		Them balls of mud got so big that it stretched the skin on them hog's bodies so tight that it pulled their eyelids right open and every one of them hogs died from lack of sleep.
	www.wvculture.org /goldenseal/Vandalia2k/liar3.html (777 words)

	Hog lot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Critics arguethat the hog lots are too large, poorly run, inhumane, or unfriendly to family farming.
		Some argue that the hog lots contaminatelocal ground water supplies via drainage wells, creeks, rivers, and the like.
		The countryside is dominated by superfarms, corporate hog lots, and factory towns where peoplelabor for poverty wages in unsafe and unhealthy conditions."
	www.therfcc.org /hog-lot-113506.html (341 words)

	THE PIGS OF IOWA
		Hogs that have no room to move, nowhere to go, nothing else to do, tend to belly up to the food trough more often, and because they don't burn off many of the calories they take in, they put on weight considerably faster than free- ranging hogs.
		The sterility of the hog's living environment is merely a reflection of the sterility of agribusiness: a manufacturing process guided by the need to reduce the growth of living creatures to as little uncertainty, as much human control, as possible.
		For each 12,000 slaughter hogs produced under corporate contract, the study estimated that 9.44 jobs would be created (4.25 on the farm and 5.19 in the community) but that 27.97 would be displaced (12.6 on the farm and 15.37 off the farm) /4/.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /9/monke.htm (3249 words)

	Iowa SBNews Full Story
		Hog operations would be fined $50 for each day a rule is broken.
		Their proposal was approved after six months of redrafts to appease hog farmers who worried about lawsuits from new neighbors unaccustomed to hog odors.
		Hog farmers and the Worth County Farm Bureau sued the northern Iowa county in August, claiming the regulations violated state law and would force small livestock operators from the county.
	www.iwrc.org /news/ia_full_story.cfm?NewsId=574 (511 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		Hog feces, that is, runoff from a nearby hog operation.
		He has warned repeatedly that hog operations in flood plains were vulnerable to floods and hurricanes.
		Asked what the hog industry should do, considering the fact that lagoons are at unsafe levels, Webb pushes the concept that a number of state environmental groups have proposed.
	www.rense.com /politics5/hogwaste_p.htm (921 words)

	Residents Speak Out About Hog Confinements
		It is intended to limit air and water pollution from hog confinements and other large livestock operations, and to give counties a bigger voice in where facilities can be built.
		Jim Braun, a former hog farmer from Latimer, said, "This is not the natural, inevitable evolution" of farming.
		Seizures are one of the symptoms of exposure to hydrogen sulfide, a chemical in hog manure.
	www.factoryfarm.org /docs/news-dmr20020522.html (404 words)

	Livestock - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Such animals may include goats, sheep, beef or dairy cattle, horses, dogs, hogs or pigs, donkeys or mules, bees, rabbits or 'exotic' animals (those raised outside their indigenous environs) such as camels, llamas, emus, ostriches, or any animal, including reptiles, kept in an inventory that may be used for food, fiber or pleasure.
		In a few countries there is some disagreement that the term may not appropriately apply to wild animals such as deer, elk, quail or other game animals that are raised for release on hunting preserves or for slaughter, or to poultry.
		The reason for this relative paucity is that a lot of mammals do not meet the basic prerequisites necessary for domestication, such as having a readily available food source that can be controlled or supplied by humans, a rapid rate of reproduction, a moderate temperament
	open-encyclopedia.com /Livestock (2688 words)

	WCFcourier.com \| Hog tied: Proposed Bremer County hog lot irks neighbors
		The proposed two-building hog lot would be situated about 2 1/2 miles east of Waverly on Iowa Highway 3 and 300 feet back from the roadway.
		The 4,800-head operation would constitute one of the larger hog lots in Bremer County, according to one official.
		She thought by building her home so close to the highway, she would be far from such large hog lots.
	www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2003/06/24/news/regional/11454ca6f2b59a9486256d4f004f3c78.txt (660 words)

	Hog Lot Issues
		Hog unit frustrates Story Co. residents: Officials say nothing can be done to stop the construction.
		I'll be smelling hog poop," said Joyce Rasmussen, who lives less than a mile north of the facility, which is being built by New Modern Concepts Inc. and Marton Pork Production, both of Iowa Falls, according to Story County documents.
		The hog facility is neither the first nor the biggest of its sort.
	www.soc.iastate.edu /sapp/HL-StoryCounty.html (658 words)

	Hogs Wild - Ian Frazier
		Hogzilla was a giant hog, said to be a wild hog from the swamps, who was shot and killed in June of 2004 on a fish farm/game ranch in south Georgia by an employee of the property named Chris Griffin.
		The hog's long tusks (in the wild, boars break their tusks fighting over sows), its weight (that much food simply isn't available in the wild), and its hooves (their wear indicated a lot of time spent standing on concrete) contributed to Mayer's verdict.
		The hogs' noses actually have a special bone in them called the nasal sesamoid bone, which is connected to the skull only by cartilage and which provides extra rooting support for the rhinarial disk -- the pig's nose, the business end, with its two hyper-sentient, staring nostril holes.
	www.wesjones.com /hogswild.htm (8518 words)

	Iowa: Hog Confinements
		In industrial-sized hog farms, the manure accumulates as a liquid in pits beneath the confinement building, or in sewage lagoons outside.
		Pigs have healthier, antibiotic-free diets; farm pastures receive natural fertilization; manure lagoons don’t pollute the land, air, creeks, and lakes; and rural homeowners near hog farms don’t have to watch in dismay as their property value is devastated.
		Many organizations are striving to ensure today’s hog farms are safe for humans, animals, and the environment, but we still have a ways to go.
	www.iowasource.com /health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html (1800 words)

	F.A.R.M. Bibliography About Livestock Factories (Illinois)
		Hog prices paid to farmers are at least 40 percent lower than a year ago, while retail pork prices declined only 1.5 percent, according to the Illinois Farm Bureau...
		A Knox County hog farm is "a continuous source of offensive odors," unreasonably interfering with neighbors' use and enjoyment of their property, the Illinois attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
		Pitchco Inc. plans to build four hog barns on the outskirts of Casey in the coming months, a huge operation that will not be subject to the state's toughest oversight guidelines because of what environmental advocates call a loophole in the law that is easy to exploit.
	www.farmweb.org /biblio_il.htm (15514 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Beware the wild spirits roaming in Old Man Jim's hog woods
		The lot was about 30 acres in size and a--what else--hog-wire fence encircled the area, which was mostly woods.
		The hogs never knew it--and didn't care, I'm sure--but amid the peas and carrots and green beans were probably chunks of chicken, beef and, yes, pork.
		And if the hogs hadn't already caught a whiff of the tantalizing slop that was cooking, they were sure to stampede to the big metal troughs near the boiler when that whistle blew.
	www.freelancestar.com /News/FLS/2003/112003/11012003/1151317 (1163 words)

	Halt Hog Factories in Iowa
		On January 15, 2002, Iowa's hog factory crisis spilled over into the rotunda of the state capitol.
		The Humane Society of the United States Halt Hog Factories Campaign joined a hundred farmers, consumers and other animal welfare advocates at a rally organized by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvementâ”a rural, grassroots organization and an HSUS partner.
		Barbara Mann and Amy Suarez of the HSUS Midwest Office carried a Halt Hog Factory banner in support of the call for new regulations to stop the spread of these inhumane facilities.
	www.hsus.org /farm_animals/farm_animals_news/halt_hog_factories_in_iowa.html (263 words)

	Catoctin Mountain Park - Nature & Science
		Hog Rock is at 1600 feet and can be reached by parking at the Hog Rock Area parking lot.
		Hog Rock affords a view to the east of the mountains of the Weverton Formation and of the gap through which Hunting Creek flows.
		The Hog Rock Trail is a self-guided and the printed interpretative guide is available at the trailhead or the Visitor Center.
	www.nps.gov /archive/cato/pphtml/subenvironmentalfactors25.html (279 words)

	Golden Triangle Media.com - Lawsuit filed against hog lot
		Another proposed hog confinement in Jefferson County is being met with resistance.
		The Pleasant Plain Property Owners Association filed a lawsuit against James Kaska, owner of a hog confinement currently under construction approximately three miles north of Fairfield at 1589 Nipa Boulevard, May 19 at Jefferson County Courthouse.
		The lawsuit claims the confined animals' production of unhealthy substances will create "imminent danger." The lawsuit also alleges the confinement runs a "significant risk of groundwater contamination" and will create a "general decline in the quality of life" in the area.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=16740530&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=567522&rfi=6 (185 words)

	news
		Pitchco Inc. plans to build four hog barns on the outskirts of Casey in the coming months, a huge operation that will not be subject to the state's toughest oversight guidelines because of what environmental advocates call a loophole in the law that is easy to exploit.
		The sooner the dead hogs are buried, the less likely others will be exposed to the bacteria and disease the decaying bodies harbor and the less likely it will be that the stench of rotting flesh drifts to population centers, officials said.
		He said the company never intended to place hog farms near populated areas and that there was no need for a comprehensive ordinance just to address their proposal.
	home.att.net /~U.S.HOG/news.html (15966 words)

	Fred Patzel: Pavarotti of the Piglot
		As it was impractical to accommodate dozens of rooting hogs in a theatre, the snout-count method of scoring was abandoned.
		The contestants were to be judged on the subtler criteria of pitch and expression for a possible thirty points; resonance, worth an equal number of points; and honesty, sincerity, and heart appeal, which could gain twenty points.
		Thomas M. Kilmartin of Griswold sued the city of Council Bluffs charging that one of his hogs leaped out of his truck and was killed when he heard Patzel's call being rebroadcast.
	www.wodehouse.org /PlumLines/patzel.html (1714 words)

	Hoosier State Embraces Hog Growth
		From 1980 to 2004, the number of hog farms took a nosedive, declining from 24,000 to 3,200.
		Large hog integrators that are setting up sow units in the area will be financed through their own lending institutions.
		Indiana's hog inventory has declined 32% from 4.6 million head in 1980 to 3.2 million in 2004, but the number of hogs marketed has barely changed during a similar period, from 6.8 million head in 1980 to 6.7 million head in 2003, according to a study from Purdue University (www.inpork.org).
	nationalhogfarmer.com /mag/farming_hoosier_state_embraces (3271 words)

	AlterNet: GLOBAL CITIZEN: Campaign Reform Could Clean Up a Lot of Hog Manure
		What happened over the past 20 years is that the packer's share of each pork dollar rose from 16 to 22 cents and the retailer's share from 47 to 60 cents, while the farmer's share fell from 37 to 18 cents.
		As the number of hogs in North Carolina rose from 2 million to 13 million, surpassing the human population, the number of hog farms dropped from 21,000 to 7,000.
		The flood carried hundreds of thousands of gallons of hog manure, combined with oil from underground tanks and chemicals from industry, into streets, wells and living rooms.
	www.alternet.org /story/513 (1227 words)

	Belmond Independent - NEIGHBORS FIGHT HOG LOT
		A group of neighbors in the upscale housing development known as "the grove" on the southeast edge of Belmond are livid at the thought of a hog confinement just one mile from their homes.
		One of the rules is that the confinement must be at least 1875 feet (about one-third of a mile) from any city, park, or cemetery.
		In the past there have been hogs raised on farms much closer to Belmond than this.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10173740&BRD=1907&PAG=461&dept_id=133418&rfi=6 (926 words)

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