Factory Farms - 'More Dangerous Than Global Terrorism'

The Independent - UK
11-21-3

WIECKOWICE, Poland -- The metal hangar juts into the
autumnal mist - a 21st century blot on the otherwise medieval
landscape of rural western Poland. The barbed wire and
watchman indicate a military base, but the stench and the
squealing could only come from pigs, thousands of them,
packed into this corrugated iron factory.

The village of Wieckowice is the latest outpost in a latter-day
invasion of Poland, led by the world's largest pork production
company which threatens to destroy Europe's last bastion of
traditional farming. Moreover, it's doing so with EU money.

Smithfield Foods, based in Virginia, has made millions in the
US by industrialising farming, creating hog factories holding
tens of thousands of pigs. The consequences for the environment,
independent farmers and rural communities from North Carolina
to Iowa have been catastrophic.
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