Lee, Jennifer 8.,
Neighbors of Vast Hog Farms Say Foul Air Endangers Their Health. Jennifer 8. Lee. - New York Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 57, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Neighbors of Vast Hog Farms Say Foul Air Endangers Their Health, May 11, 2003; pp. 1+.
"Robert Thornell says that five years ago an invisible swirling poison invaded his family farm and the house he had built with his hands. It robbed him of his memory, his balance and his ability to work. It left him with mood swings, a stutter and fistfuls of pills. He went from doctor to doctor, unable to understand what was happening to him. The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article notes that a "growing number of scientists and public health officials around the country say they have traced a variety of health problems faced by neighbors of huge industrial farms to vast amounts of concentrated animal waste, which emit toxic gases while collecting in open-air cesspools or evaporating through sprays."
1522-3205;
United States Dept. of Agriculture
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Actions and defenses
Agricultural pollution
Air pollution
Animal waste
Hydrogen sulphide
Swine industry--Environmental aspects
AC1.S5
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Neighbors of Vast Hog Farms Say Foul Air Endangers Their Health. Jennifer 8. Lee. - New York Times, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 57, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Neighbors of Vast Hog Farms Say Foul Air Endangers Their Health, May 11, 2003; pp. 1+.
"Robert Thornell says that five years ago an invisible swirling poison invaded his family farm and the house he had built with his hands. It robbed him of his memory, his balance and his ability to work. It left him with mood swings, a stutter and fistfuls of pills. He went from doctor to doctor, unable to understand what was happening to him. The 14th doctor finally said he knew the source of the maladies: cesspools the size of football fields belonging to the industrial hog farm a half-mile from the Thornell home." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article notes that a "growing number of scientists and public health officials around the country say they have traced a variety of health problems faced by neighbors of huge industrial farms to vast amounts of concentrated animal waste, which emit toxic gases while collecting in open-air cesspools or evaporating through sprays."
1522-3205;
United States Dept. of Agriculture
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Actions and defenses
Agricultural pollution
Air pollution
Animal waste
Hydrogen sulphide
Swine industry--Environmental aspects
AC1.S5
050