Difference between revisions of "Industrial pork"
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| − | The ''' | + | 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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| + | The "modern" | ||
Revision as of 08:32, 26 January 2015
The Industrial pork production, together with industrial chicken production represents the worst excesses of the 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.
The end product, while marginally cheaper than pork raised on farms, is of such low quality that the average person of a few generations ago would have not accepted it from their local butcher.
breeding
The "modern"
