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BPD #7 'you are what you eat'

WAKE THE DEAD

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Robert Kennedy on the Battle for Farmland in the United States

Robert Kennedy Jr. spent many years doing the factory farms that make hog farms and big chicken producers like Tyson and Opel Grum, Frank Purdue. Smithfield was the biggest port producer. And they had, they built a slaughterhouse that could kill, it could process 30,000 pigs a day. It put out of business all 28,000 independent hog farmers in the state of North Carolina. They replaced them with 2,200 factories. All of them either owned by Smithfield or contract to Smithfield. So now China owns all that hog production in America. And it controls our landscapes. That's the end of Thomas Jefferson's vision of an American democracy.

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