Pork Producer Defends Industry
BY MARY-ANN HENDRIKX, STRATHROY; The London Free Press, 10 Jun 2003
Dear Editor,
As a pork producer, I am ticked at the amount of misinformation and negativity that surrounds any news of my industry. Pigs had absolutely nothing to do with the Walkerton tragedy, yet people continue to link the two, and papers continue to print these quotes as if they have truth to them.
Water is important to both farm families and the animals we tend; we need clean water to live and prosper.
Yes, manure does smell, as do many other biological and chemical processes that happen in this province. A recent study of close neighbours of large livestock farms in Ontario found odour is only an issue a few days a year during manure application.
Ontario’s pork producers have invested $2 million in the last five years in environmental research, including odour reduction. The unknown may be scary to our neighbours, but the science of manure management does not need to be unknown to those who live in agricultural areas. The correct information is out there. Who’s taking responsibility to go out and get it?
Posted by FFC on July 21st, 2009 :: Filed under Letters to the Editor,Pork
Tags :: environment, Ontario, pigs
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