"Pignorant " A documentary about how pigs are gassed and slaughtered
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rpannier
(24,494 posts)I will watch
Farmer-Rick
(10,888 posts)"Roughly half of the approximately 350,000 acres of U.S. farmland owned by Chinese entities is represented by Smithfield's more than 400 company-owned hog farms and 43 plants, according to federal data."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/smithfield-foods-ceo-defends-pork-producers-chinese-ownership-a78827da
What control do we have over these farms and corporations owned by foreign entities?
JudyM
(29,474 posts)Unfortunately the laws falls seriously short of compassionate treatment, and enforcement is notoriously lax.
https://awionline.org/legislation/farm-system-reform-act
https://www.hfa.org/hboDocumentary.html
Farmer-Rick
(10,888 posts)Observe our laws and regulations.
Yeah, the abuse of farm animals in the US, especially these giant factory farms of chickens and pigs, is horrible.
JudyM
(29,474 posts)Same goes for the rest of the factory farming situation. Almost all my donations go to fighting that; we desperately need stronger activism, legislation and enforcement.