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Big Meat Flexes its Muscles | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy If the meat companies get their way in TPP, rising exports from the U.S. could shift into overdrive. This means there will be more CAFOs in U.S. rural communities, more land needed for animal feed (yes, more corn and soybeans), more antibiotics used to raise these animals, and more water and air pollution from their giant manure lagoons. The agreement would also both expand and lock in a system of contract farming, where pork and poultry farmers take the risk, and the companies take the profits. Ben Lilliston, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy iatp.org/blog/201411/big-meat-flexes-its-muscles
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:47:03 +0000

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