Pandemic reveals how our factory farm system is broken
In a recent CNN segment, a hog farmer in Minnesota is seen in apparent distress at the prospect of having to euthanize his thousands of pigs due to reduced slaughterhouse capacities. Indeed, meat-packing plants across the nation have closed because of COVID-19 outbreaks, leading to staggering numbers of pigs, cows and chickens being “depopulated” — …
