Industrial pork - Revision history

Ahoussney at 00:37, 9 February 2017

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Ahoussney at 14:41, 27 January 2015

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Ahoussney at 14:07, 27 January 2015

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Ahoussney at 04:39, 27 January 2015

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Ahoussney at 14:32, 26 January 2015

2015-01-26T14:32:09Z

Ahoussney: Ahoussney moved page Modern swine rearing to Industrial pork: the word "modern" has a positive connotation as well as the implication that it is "the way of the future"

2015-01-26T14:05:12Z

Ahoussney moved page Modern swine rearing to Industrial pork: the word "modern" has a positive connotation as well as the implication that it is "the way of the future"

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The '''modern swine industry''', together with the [[modern poultry industry]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to livestock.
Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry

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−	The '''pork industry''', together with [[industrial chicken\|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry\|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.	+	The '''pork industry''', together with [[industrial chicken\|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry\|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in confinement in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment called a [[CAFO]].
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		+	[[agro-industry\|Agro-Industrial]] rearing of swine, along with chickens have been successful in producing cheap meat relative to cattle and sheep, largely because as [[omnivores]] chickens and pigs have digestive systems that are well suited to eat foods that might be partially decomposing, since in the wild, their ancestors specialized in making use of scavenged meats as well as food dug or scratched out of the ground where pathogens proliferate. These strong digestive and immune systems allow these species to be confined in large, dirty barns full of their own excrement with an "economically tolerable" level of losses whereas the he herbivores, especially [[ruminants]] who are used to eating pathogen-free grasses and greens, like cows, goats and sheep would not survive such conditions.

	Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from [[traditional swine rearing\|traditional methods]] of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.		Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from [[traditional swine rearing\|traditional methods]] of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.

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 The '''pork industry''', together with [[industrial chicken|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.
-Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from [[traditional swine rearing|traditional methods]] of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.
+Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from [[traditional swine rearing|traditional methods]] of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.
 The end product, while marginally cheaper than pork raised on farms, is of such low [[pork quality#industrial pork quality|quality]] that the average person of a few generations ago would have not accepted it from their local butcher.
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 ==breeding==
-The "modern"
+The "modern" hog is bred for a number of traits that were alien to the traditional hog breeder.

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 The '''pork industry''', together with [[industrial chicken|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.
-Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from traditional methods of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.
+Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from [[traditional swine rearing|traditional methods]] of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.
 The end product, while marginally cheaper than pork raised on farms, is of such low [[pork quality#industrial pork quality|quality]] that the average person of a few generations ago would have not accepted it from their local butcher.

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−	The '''~~Industrial~~ pork ~~production~~''', together with [[industrial chicken\|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry\|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.	+	The '''pork industry''', together with [[industrial chicken\|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry\|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.

	Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from traditional methods of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.		Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from traditional methods of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.

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−	The '''~~modern swine industry~~''', together with ~~the~~ [[~~modern poultry industry~~]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry\|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to livestock.	+	The '''Industrial pork production''', together with [[industrial chicken\|industrial chicken production]] represents the worst excesses of the [[agro-industry\|agro-industrial]] paradigm with regard to the [[factory farming]] of livestock. [[Swine]] raised by this industry spend their entire lives in huge buildings housing thousands of other animals in a totally artificial environment.
−	Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry	+
		+	Highly reliant on cheap [[subsidized grain]] and the cheap energy that makes it possible, the pork industry has radically departed from traditional methods of farming not only on the scale in which each unit operates but also in the degree to which an animal is completely managed and divorced from any semblance of its natural habitat, diet or behaviors.
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		+	The end product, while marginally cheaper than pork raised on farms, is of such low [[pork quality#industrial pork quality\|quality]] that the average person of a few generations ago would have not accepted it from their local butcher.
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		+	==breeding==
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		+	The "modern"

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