AAI North America US Farm Bill Working Group's three New Issue Briefs - Issue Brief # 2
Title: LEVELING THE FIELD – ISSUE BRIEF #2
Environmental and Health Problems
in Livestock Production:
Pollution in the Food System
Date Published: June 2007
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Abstract: Over the last thirty years, the livestock production system in the United States has undergone an industrial revolution. The number of animals raised for meat has been steady or growing, even as the number of farms raising animals has declined. Today, we have only a quarter the number of hog farms we had in 1982, but the number of hogs sold has gone up. How is that possible? Only because of a major change in the way livestock are produced—a change that affects farmers, consumers, businesses, and our communities.
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