Re: [A-List] Big pig, little pig

["Tariq Mahmood" <zaogir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I for one am happy that we in Pakistan are not producing any pigs at all,
big or small. Why should you also not do without it?

Tariq


----- Original Message -----
"bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure how many direct subsidies go to swine producers in the US,
but
> the indirect subsidies are enormous.  I live in the state that displaced
> Iowa a couple of years back for the number one position as swine producer.
> The state provides massive infrastructure for integrators like Smithfield,
> access to aquifers, roads and highways, discharge points, tax breaks, and
> protection from regulation by classifying them as "farms."  They are not.
> They are massive meat factories, called confinement facilities, and we
have
> the biggest slaughterhouse in the world here, in a little town called Tar
> Heel, where around 35,000 hogs a day pass through.  The industry is
> vetically integrated, and no producers anywhere in the less developed
world
> can possibly compete with them... though they themselves are looking to
> build facilities in low-wage countries like Mexico.
>
> I wrote a piece about them a few years back, that while dated, still gives
> a fair description.
>
> http://www.resistinc.org/newsletter/issues/1998/12/nccp.html