Plan for 20,000-hog facility sparks revolt in western Illinois | Chicago Tribune
Efforts like this one have largely failed during the past two decades as pork producers constructed more than 900 new swine confinements across Illinois, often brushing aside farm families’ concerns about sickening odors, road damage, depletion of wells and fouling of creeks. But this network of far
Efforts like this one have largely failed during the past two decades as pork producers constructed more than 900 new swine confinements across Illinois, often brushing aside farm families’ concerns about sickening odors, road damage, depletion of wells and fouling of creeks.
But this network of farmsteads set amid rolling hills has become the newest battleground where small-town residents are trying to fend off a leading U.S. pork producer.
6.8 million farm animals have died in barn fires in the last 10 years. Animal welfare advocates have called for stronger fire safety rules, but Big Meat fears financial losses.
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