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Kimi Jacobee Jenna Beverly Whitney
 * Water Polution: Hog Waste Running Into Rivers:**

How does our need for a holiday ham cause water pollution? The Horror Behind the Bacon On average a pig can live to be 10 to 15 years old, but the way pig are being brought up they are killed just six months into their lives. These pigs are raised to grow up and be a part of your diet, but at the rate that they are catching diseases they wont even make it to be packed and shipped. There are one million pigs killed by transportation alone and that is not counting the amount that is killed for food purposes. If we allow to have this monstrosity continue many pigs will be killed off with out ever having the chance to live. And it is our job to let you see the horrors hiding behind the bacon. When a pig is born it is put in a small crate with its mother and siblings. In these crates the mother is forced to lay down as the babies feed from her. The cages they are in is so small the mother isn't able to stand or even roll over, its been reported that some of the mothers are held this way until they are on the brink of insanity. Once the babies are old enough they are taken from their mothers and are put with their father in a different pen, as the mothers are forced to reproduce all over again. And then they are prepared for shipment. All of the pigs in that batch are loaded into a truck. This truck is so tight packed that they are practically on top of each other. And the force of them all pushing up against each other that if causes their guts and other bodily fluids to be released, such as feces and intestines. And that causes the pigs to catch diseases and the owners take it upon themselves to feed them antibiotics in large dosages. And the majority of the pigs that survive are still infected when killed. Once they arrive at the slaughterhouse they are hit with a stun gun that is suppose to kill them instantly. Unfortunately not all are kill, but simply knocked unconscious. What that means is that when it gets to the point when they are dropped into boiling water some wake up and are brutally killed in the scolding hot water. As for the ones that have died during the transpiration they are simply tossed into a near by place, sometimes its a forest or even a body of water. The antibiotics in the pigs it can transfer over to the food it is made into and the consumer can become sick. Also the ones thrown into the water lead to larger bodies where we get our drinking water from. Its been know that a pig can be as friendly as a dog and more smart then a chimp. If well informed you would see it as killing a person, they have feeling and thoughts and memories. The best thing to do to stop these pigs from a sad and painful death is to join our revolution and save the pigs by showing the horror behind the bacon. **"Cleaning Up Hog Waste in North Carolina." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 09 Jan 2006. Web. 23 Feb 2011.** [].
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"North Carolina's Hog Waste Lagoons: A Public Health Time Bomb ." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 10-Jun-1999. Web. 23 Feb 2011. [].

warrick, Joby. "Regulating Hog Farms." 5. Web. 23 Feb 2011. [].

"Enviorment." (2003): 1. Web. 23 Feb 2011. [].

"Hog Waste (Still) Threatens Neuse River, NC - Animal Factory." //Animal Factory - A Dramatic Exposé of Factory Farms and the Devastating Impact They Have on Human Health, the Environment, and the Economy//. 2 Sept. 2010. Web. 23 Feb. 2011. <[]>. "North Carolina Riverkeepers & Waterkeeper Alliance." //Waterkeeper Alliance and RiverLaw Fighting Hog Pollution//. 21 July 2009. Web. 23 Feb. 2011. [].

Mayo, Nikie (2010). Hog Waste (Still) Threatens Neuse River, NC. Retrieved 23 February 2011 from Sun Journal: []
===="NRF Files Clean Water Act Notice of Violation Against Hog Producer." //HOGS AND CAFOS// (2010): n. pag. Web. 23 Feb 2011. . ==== ==== (Whitney) Huge Spill of hog waste fuels an old Debate in North Carolina- New York Times, Isabel Kershner, Mark Landler, 23 February 2011 []==== (Whitney) []

July 5, 1998 //Sunday Raleigh News and Observer Hog farms pose risks of waste spills and runoff, but that's not all. The ammonia rising from lagoons could be even more hazardous////.// By STUART LEAVENWORTH and JAMES ELI SHIFFER

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