| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Praise -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Abbreviations -- Part 1. The Takeover -- 1. Moving to the Country -- 2. Fertile Soil -- 3. The Big Pig Pyramid -- 4. The Meeting at Lansing Corners -- 5. Get Big or Get Out -- 6. The Battle in Ripley Township -- Part 2. The Lawsuit -- 7. The Economics of the Great Pig Explosion -- 8. In the Tank for Big Ag -- 9. Getting to Know Your Neighbors -- 10. Industry Watchdogs -- 11. Risk of Pollution -- Part 3. The Resistance -- 12. Don't Drink the Water (or the Kool-Aid) |
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13. The Corporate Bully -- 14. In the Trenches -- 15. The Three-Day Stink Out -- Part 4. The Reclamation -- 16. Corporate Indoctrination -- 17. The Pork Board -- 18. Feed the World -- 19. On the Front Lines -- 20. Expanding the Corporate Empire -- 21. A New Vision for Farm Country -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
In this compelling firsthand account, Sonja Trom Eayrs tells the story of one Dodge County family farm in rural Minnesota to expose the abuses wrought by corporate factory farms in terms of pollution, cancer clusters, waste, the destruction of local communities and economies, and the erosion of democracy |
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Trom Eayrs, Sonja.
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Agricultural industries -- Minnesota -- Dodge County
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Factory farms -- Minnesota -- Dodge County
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Rural development -- Minnesota -- Dodge County
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food
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Dodge County (Minn.)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Don, Katherine, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781496241313 |
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1496241312 |
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9781496241320 |
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1496241320 |
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