(she) is talking about feedlots that contain animals from birth to slaughter. The piglets never see what grass is. They are doing the same in some cattle operations now that are trying to feed them from birth to slaughter inside. The large cattle operations raise them from lil' guys to slaughter here too. Why do you think they want to close down open range ranchers? They have big operations in South America and the old style rancher is competition.
Sorry about that...
I've never heard of cattle being raised this way,it's just not practical.
Pigs and fowl yes.
No problem with the raising them however they want. They just need to deal with the shit properly as it goes into everyone else's water and ponds. Same with chemical sprays just do it where it ain't going to wash down stream, go into the water table or poison everything else in sight. These big operations have all been subsidized and people we now who had smaller operations that were more environmentally conscious about it all lost out. They can't compete with corporates that are subsidized and ruthless about making a dime no matter the cost to others.
Where exactly do you live that they can get away with it?
Iowa. Poorest county in the state and the most corrupt. Those inside feed containment facilities fer cows was in another county. I'll try to recall where the articles are. I started looking into the parasite types here about fifteen years ago because of my most favorite dog evah' and a neighbor who is a vet that helped me search for what was wrong with the dog. Looked at parasite load here on our place which pretty low but the wild animals come from alll over so can't keep those out plus a creek on it. The ponds down about a mile are not properties with feed lots but the feed lots are near them and their ponds are full of parasites.
Those terracing and tiling programs are also federally subsidized. Then they started getting subsidized to run the drainage tile is directed underground. That actually puts the chems and fertilizer into the underground water supply.
Its been awhile but the Des Moines Register put out an article for the dumb and blind that said with photo that rainbow like appearance floating on the water was perfectly normal and no big deal. Chemical overload no big deal and it really wasn't what was causing dead birds and such.