Raising a stink the struggle over factory hog farms in Nebraska / Carolyn Johnsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnsen, Carolyn, 1944-

Series:

Our sustainable future ; Volume 15.

Our sustainable future ; v. 15

Our Sustainable Future ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pork industry and trade--Nebraska.

Pork industry and trade.

Swine--Economic aspects--Nebraska.

Swine.

Swine--Nebraska.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 180 p. ) ill. ;

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Nebraska, as in many states across the nation, factory farms housing tens of thousands of hogs have altered the physical, cultural, and economic landscape, and have generated complex and deeply divisive conflicts among family farmers, environmentalists, agri-businesses, and elected officials.

A reporter long familiar with the controversy, Carolyn Johnsen draws on a wealth of interviews, archival material, and her own extensive experience as a journalist to present a timely, informative, and balanced account of this complicated and troubling agricultural practice - and to put a human face on its causes and consequences."

"Here everyone has a say: farmers and neighbors suffering from proximity to the factory hog farms; pork producers adopting the latest hog confinement technology in the face of fierce opposition; politicians attempting to interpret the "science" and shape public policy in a maelstrom. The result is the story of a struggle for the heart and soul of rural America."--Jacket.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. If economics rule

2. Hog-wild to expand

3. Rile dup

4. Home rule

5. The legislature weighs in

6. Hog Hiltons and initiative 300

7. A tale of two counties

8. The marshal comes to Dodge

9. Pork tenderloin at the Capitol

10. Another pass at the legislature

11. Building on sand

12. The smell of money

13. To make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliogr. pages 149-172. Index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610465798

9781280465796

1280465794

9780803203303

0803203306

OCLC:

53119619