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Jan 21, 2007

"Bacon" polluting more than biggest U.S. city populations?

"North Carolina's ten million hogs produce twice as much feces and urine as the populations of the cities of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago combined. Industrial farms, most with thousands of hogs each, store the waste in open-air pits, called lagoons. They spray the waste, untreated, as manure on adjacent fields."



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Haase Comments - While the title and the "
investigative piece" was an important topic... , I completely WASTED my morning watching the kungfu bunnies and cowscapes form Web Zen... Yikes!


Good comments on boing, boing