Robert F. Kennedy Jr. statment on Smithfields` pig factory

...Since a hog produces ten times the amount of waste as a human, a single hog factory can generate more fecal waste than Warsaw....

Julio 20, 2009

I am President of Waterkeeper Alliance an environmental group and a leader of a national coalition of family farmers, fishermen, environmental and animal welfare organizations, religious and civic associations, and food safety advocates who are fighting Smithfield Foods in the United States.

During the past eighteen months, I have come to Poland twice to alert the Polish people about the dangers of allowing Smithfield a foothold in this country, most recently at the request of the Animal Welfare Institute(...)

Smithfield and its cronies have driven tens of thousands of family farmers off the land, shattered rural communities, poisoned thousands of miles of American waterways, killed billions of fish, put thousands of fishermen out of work, sickened rural residents and treated hundreds of millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty....

Source: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. statment on Smithfields` pig factory

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