The Scoop On Pig Poop

[DrBird735]

Ammonia is reduced from air release via the method of direct sub soil injection shown in this video. My research has shown that ammonia levels leaving animal barns drops significantly as you move further away from the barn. Since Ammonia is considered a trace element of our atmosphere (78% nitrogen + 21% oxygen), I question your logic here. The big problem lies with human waste treatment, and direct (source point) dumping into waterways.

[buyUSA9808]

I wouldn't even bother arguing with her. Trust me, she's perfectly happy believing only what she wants.

[ContaMuir17a]

The research I've seen shows that Meat feeds cancer cells, promotes heart disease, and is horribly cruel.

I can only imagine what you must look like while you are typing with your mouth. See what eating pork has done to you. Its made you even stupider. And seemingly it makes you ignore facts when there is money involved.

You should be ashamed of yourself. I doubt you have enough character to feel sorry for all the harm you do in the world.

Why don't you grow up?

[buyUSA9808]

first off, calling me stupid is just immature to the Nth degree. 2nd, i don't know you so i won't stoop to your level of juvenile name-calling. You must remember, sir, that farmers aren't forcing ANYONE to eat pork--it's a matter of choice. As 4 life expectancy, u can eat all the rocks and dirt u want, but when you live 2 b 115 yrs old, just think how alone you'll be b/c of all the people you've pissed off for the duration of your sad life. Besides, are wild animals evil b/c they eat meat?

[buyUSA9808]

As for "the harm I do to the world" & "being stupid", I have a college degree, & am a cop. I make my living upholding the laws that allow people like you to make outrageous accusations based on what you watched last night on Allen Combs. Meanwhile, I will B perpetually happy eating eating all the little critters God was kind enough to put on this planet. Because at the end of the day, nobody is holding a gun to my head, forcing me to eat rocks and dirt, and thats a lesson that bears learning.

[ContaMuir17a]

Bla Bla Bla!

Keep talking to yourself some day you might believe it!

You're right, no reason to call you stupid you do a good job of proving it all by yourself.

Who the heck is allen combs and why should I give a $&*% about his, or your opinion?

Got a B.S. in stupidity huh? It Shows. I guess you're stupid enough to put the gun to your own head huh? Stupid is as stupid does!

Go watch some more TV boy! Get some more "Facts".

I am severely underwhelmed by your inane & obtuse arguments.

[ContaMuir17a]

"Farmers feed 1 million to 2 million tons of poultry litter to their cattle annually, according to FDA estimates.

Using the litter -- which includes feces, spilled chicken feed, feathers and poultry farm detritus -- increases the risk of cows becoming infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, said Michael Hansen, a senior scientist at Consumers Union." -- Los angeles Times

[ContaMuir17a]

According to a 2006 report by the Livestock, Environment And Development Initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contributes on a "massive scale" to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.

[ContaMuir17a]

The initiative concluded that "the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." In 2006 FAO estimated that meat industry contributes 18% of all emissions of greenhouse gasses. This figure was revised in 2009 by two World Bank scientists and estimated at 51% minimum.

- Livestock's Long Shadow - Environmental Issues and Options, Download 2006, 390 pp.

World-Watch, World Bank

[ContaMuir17a]

The production of protein from grain-fed animals requires eight times as much fossil-fuel energy as the production of plant protein. -- "US could feed 800 Million People With The Grain That Live Stock Eat." Cornell University Aug 1979

[ContaMuir17a]

According to an article in Environmental Health Perspectives, typical feedlot husbandry of cattle requires an input of 35 kcal of fossil fuel to produce one kcal of food energy in beef, far more than that required for comparable plants. -- Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.)

uh exactly which gum ball machine did your degree come from?

The scientific evidence is overwhelmingly against your view point.

[ContaMuir17a]

Significant negative effects of riparian ecosystems are also associated with meat production in the United States; in fact, 80% of stream and riparian habitats in the western US have been negatively impacted by livestock grazing. This has been shown to result in increased phosphates, nitrates, decreased dissolved oxygen, increased temperature, increased turbidity, and reduced species diversity (Belsky et al., 1999).

[ContaMuir17a]

Waste release from pork farms in the Eastern United States have also been shown to cause large-scale eutrophication of bodies of water including the Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean (Palmquist, et al., 1997).

[ContaMuir17a]

According to the United Nations, "Ranching-induced deforestation is one of the main causes of loss of some unique plant and animal species in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America as well as carbon release in the atmosphere." Food & Agriculture Organization 2005

[ContaMuir17a]

The FAO agrees, saying that "Expanding livestock production is one of the main drivers of the destruction of tropical rain forests in Latin America, which is causing serious environmental degradation in the region."An earlier FAO study found that 90% of deforestation is caused by unsustainable agricultural practices. Logging and plantation forestry, though not as major contributors to deforestation, play a greater role in forest degradation. World RainForest Movement

[ContaMuir17a]

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has issued warnings for several years to workers in animal confinement operations about job-related asthma and the threat of death from manure-pit gases if ventilation systems fail to work adequately. -- Environmental Defense Fund 1997

In Iowa, a study found neighbors of hog facilities had respiratory problems similar to those of workers in hog confinement operations (Donham, 1998).

[ContaMuir17a]

Hog factories were virtually unregulated until 1993, when modest rules were adopted requiring factory hog operations to develop waste management plans.

Since then, additional rules have been adopted for factory hog farms but few of these are as far-reaching as the rules that apply to municipal sewage treatment plants and other industrial polluters. EDF 1997

[ContaMuir17a]

Sewage treatment plants and other industrial polluters have been subject to state and federal requirements, including strict technology and monitoring requirements, for decades.

No laws exist to deal with the huge amount of ammonia sent into the air by hog factories (about 168 million tons a year), while other industrial sources are subject to strict controls on the emission of air pollutants. -- Environmental Defense Fund 1997

[ContaMuir17a]

In Iowa, a study found neighbors of hog facilities had respiratory problems similar to those of workers in hog confinement operations (Donham, 1998).

[ContaMuir17a]

Studies also have found psychological stress in residents near hog factories that is related to frequent exposure to intense hog odors.

A study of North Carolina residents who had lived by hog factories an average of five years reported significantly more tension, depression, anger, and fatigue than residents not exposed to hog odor at home (Schiffman, 1998).

[ContaMuir17a]

In a 1998 report, a team of University of North Carolina researchers stated, "We must undertake an aggressive initiative to address issues of odor nuisance and potential health effects associated with odors" (U.N.C., Board of Governors, 1998).

[ContaMuir17a]

Is that enough or do you require more evidence of your lack of knowledge? aka stupidity.

Go Back to whatever gum ball machine you got your degree from and get a Phd or something would you?

[ContaMuir17a]

California officials identify agriculture, including cows, as the major source of nitrate pollution in more than 100,000 square miles of polluted groundwater.

In Oklahoma, nitrates from Seaboard Farms' hog operations contaminated drinking water wells, prompting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue an emergency order in June 2001 requiring the company to provide safe drinking water to area residents.

-- National Resources Defense Council NRDC

[ContaMuir17a]

In 1996 the Centers for Disease Control established a link between spontaneous abortions and high nitrate levels in Indiana drinking water wells located close to feedlots.

High levels of nitrates in drinking water also increase the risk of methemoglobinemia, or "blue-baby syndrome," which can kill infants.

Animal waste contains disease-causing pathogens, such as Salmonella, E. coli, Cryptosporidium, and fecal coliform, which can be 10 to 100 times more concentrated than in human waste. -- NRDC

[ContaMuir17a]

More than 40 diseases can be transferred to humans through manure.

# In May 2000, 1,300 cases of gastroenteritis were reported and six people died as the result of E. coli contaminating drinking water in Walkerton, Ontario. Health authorities determined that the most likely source was cattle manure runoff. -- NRDC

[ContaMuir17a]

Manure from dairy cows is thought to have contributed to the disastrous Cryptosporidium contamination of Milwaukee's drinking water in 1993, which killed more than 100 people, made 400,000 sick and resulted in $37 million in lost wages and productivity.

In this country, roughly 24 million pounds of antibiotics -- about 70 percent of the nation's antibiotics use in total -- are added to animal feed every year to speed livestock growth.

[ContaMuir17a]

This widespread use of antibiotics on animals contributes to the rise of resistant bacteria, making it harder to treat human illnesses. * Large hog farms emit hydrogen sulfide, a gas that most often causes flu-like symptoms in humans, but at high concentrations can lead to brain damage. In 1998, the National Institute of Health reported that 19 people died as a result of hydrogen sulfide emissions from manure pits.

[ContaMuir17a]

Huge open-air waste lagoons, often as big as several football fields, are prone to leaks and spills. In 1995 an eight-acre hog-waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, spilling 25 million gallons of manure into the New River. The spill killed about 10 million fish and closed 364,000 acres of coastal wetlands to shellfishing.

From 1995 to 1998, 1,000 spills or pollution incidents occurred at livestock feedlots in 10 states and 200 manure-related fish kills resulted in the death of 13 million fish.

[ContaMuir17a]

When Hurricane Floyd hit North Carolina in 1999, at least five manure lagoons burst and approximately 47 lagoons were completely flooded.

Runoff of chicken and hog waste from factory farms in Maryland and North Carolina is believed to have contributed to outbreaks of Pfiesteria piscicida, killing millions of fish and causing skin irritation, short-term memory loss and other cognitive problems in local people.

[ContaMuir17a]

Nutrients in animal waste cause algal blooms, which use up oxygen in the water, contributing to a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico where there's not enough oxygen to support aquatic life. The dead zone fluctuates in size each year, extending over 5,800 square miles during the summer of 2004 and stretching over 7,700 square miles during the summer of 1999.

[ContaMuir17a]

Ammonia, a toxic form of nitrogen released in gas form during waste disposal, can be carried more than 300 miles through the air before being dumped back onto the ground or into the water, where it causes algal blooms and fish kills.

-- NRDC

[ContaMuir17a]

The EPA reports that chicken, hog, and cattle excrement have polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states. Besides the environmental problems caused by farmed animal waste, the dangerous fecal bacteria from farm sewage, including E. coli, can also cause serious illness in humans.

-- Environmental News Network, "Environmental Issues Specific to the Agriculture Industry," ENN Online 2004.

[ContaMuir17a]

A 2006 report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that the Gulf of Mexicos dead zone—an area in which virtually all the sea animals and plants have died—is now half the size of Maryland. In 2006, a separate study by Princeton University found that a shift away from meat production—as well as Americans adoption of vegetarian diets—would dramatically reduce the amount of nitrogen in the Gulf to levels that would make the dead zone small or non-existent. Donner2006

[AnimalTortureMustEnd]

Please search on google:

Hog Pollution

And click on the first link that is called: "Myth vs. Facts about hog pollution"

[AnimalTortureMustEnd]

From what i've heard about industrial pig farming- every scource, save this advertisment, identifies industrial pig farming as a major contributor to disasterous enviornmental destruction. This idea is addressed as common knowledge by every scource i can remember and i do not ever remember hearing one argument against this.

[AnimalTortureMustEnd]

...In addition, the waste nurses more than 100 microbial pathogens that can cause illness in humans, including salmonella, cryptosporidium, streptocolli and girardia."

[AnimalTortureMustEnd]

An article published in the rolling stone magazine in 2006:

"A very interesting read on the nature of pollution from pig farms in the United States, the level of contamination, and possible damages to the environment...