Factory Farms

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Factory Farms:

Factory Farms

Excrement:

Excrement “Hogs produce three times more excrement than human being do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield farm generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan.”

Excrement:

Excrement Working Definition: waste matter discharged from the body, especially feces

Inseminated:

Inseminated “Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around.”

Inseminated:

Inseminated Working Definition: to inject semen into (the female reproductive tract); impregnate.

Immunological:

Immunological “From Smithfield’s point of view, the problem with this lifestyle is immunological.”

Immunological:

Immunological Working Definition: the branch of science dealing with the components of the immune system, immunity from disease, the immune response, and immunologic techniques of analysis.

Susceptible:

Susceptible “They become susceptible to infection, and in such dense quarters microbes or parasites or fungi, once established in one pig, will rush spritelike through the whole population.”

Susceptible:

Susceptible Working Definition: accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence, mood, agency, etc.

Ambulatory:

Ambulatory “As long as the pig remains ambulatory, it can be legally killed and sold as meat.”

Ambulatory:

Ambulatory Working Definition: of, pertaining to, or capable of walking

Deprive:

Deprive “Hog farms in North Carolina also emit some 300 tons of nitrogen into the air every day as ammonia gas, much of which falls back to earth and deprives lakes and streams of oxygen…”

Deprive:

Deprive Working Definition: to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons):

Atomized:

Atomized “Lofted and atomized, the feces is blown clear of the company’s property.”

Atomized:

Atomized Working Definition: to reduce to fine particles or spray

Agglomeration:

Agglomeration “To appreciate what this agglomeration of hog production does to the people who live near it, you have to appreciate the smell of industrial-strength pig feces.”

Agglomeration:

Agglomeration Working Definition: a jumbled cluster or mass of varied parts

Insidiously:

Insidiously “I’ve probably smelled stronger odors in my life, but nothing so insidiously and instantaneously nauseating.”

Insidiously:

Insidiously Working Definition: working in a subtle or apparently innocuous way, but nevertheless deadly

Deoxygenate:

Deoxygenate “…the nutrients in the pig feces produce algal blooms that also deoxygenate the water.”

Deoxygenate:

Deoxygenate Working Definition: to remove oxygen from

Flourishes:

Flourishes “MRSA also flourishes in nasal passages, so touching your nose after touching meat fives the bug another way into your body, adds Smith.”

Flourishes:

Flourishes Working Definition: to be in a vigorous state; thrive