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Essay / Boss Hog killers - 562
“Hey honey, where did this hog come from? The store? A farm? Good question John, you are eating steroid pigs that are injected with drugs. Your meat comes from a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO). Animals in CAFO centers have terrible living conditions. There can be up to 30 pigs crammed into a small space, they walk in their own excrement and they are injected with medicine to prevent them from dying. Some of these pens/prison cells are so crowded that the animals trample each other to death. Think that sounds bad enough, well they only do the bare minimum so it's totally legal! “Has anyone ever heard of animal cruelty?” Not when it comes to cheap eating. Producers want to make as much money as possible. Needless to say, they don't care how they get it. According to Jeff Tietz's December 14, 2006 "Boss Hog-Part 1" in Rolling Stone, he states that "as long as the pig remains ambulatory, it can be legally killed and sold as meat." This means that if the pig is full of disease and can move with or without medication, you eat it. This statement is supported by Smithfield Foods. Tietz lat...