Also, lagoons can overflow and cause bacteria to contaminate water. This method is known as the “ lagoon and sprayfield method.” This spraying method is what often results in the reported air pollution. These lagoons overflow or are released into crop fields as fertilizer that goes on to emit toxic fumes. Pig manure is stored in on-farm lagoons, or small ponds. However, while humans have an intricate sewage system, pigs do not. This waste, just like human waste, has to be stored. It is estimated that pigs produce about 11 pounds of manure daily. In large-scale pig farming operations, animals are kept in close quarters. Why all the poo? Several pigs stand close together on the bare ground. Even though it may not affect your community directly, hog farms are often exempted from environmental standards that are linked to increases in environmental disruption, potential for disease outbreaks and, of course, environmental injustice. This is a systemic inequity that deserves more attention. Some research suggests that there is an increased occurrence of respiratory illnesses, asthma, and even cancer among people living near hog farms. When it pertains to environmental degradation, large hog farms are polluting the air and water with hazardous chemicals, including carbon monoxide, methane, antibiotic residues and pathogenic bacteria.
It takes a process to make pork, and I believe that process is inherently flawed. These operations are often described as a compact and windowless confinement-kind of like a more gruesome prison, in my opinion. A type of hog farming known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, is prevalent throughout the state but is mostly concentrated in rural and lower-income areas.
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