When these industrial scale facilities first opened in South Alberta, I thought they would not last long. I just could not accept that the people would come to accept such animal rearing practices for the sake of cheaper food . Nor did i feel they would accept the enviromental destruction it brings with it.

I was wrong. While there large opposition to such practices, the power of the industry along with its bought allies in Government was overwhelming.

It interesting in Canada as to how Politicans are "Bought" when they can not be bought outright with campaign contributions. (We have much tighter lobbying laws then in the US with very tight limits put on as to what the Corporation can contribute to a Politician or political party)

The industries use JOBS and the threat of losing them to BUY the politicians off. In essence we the people are their unit of exchange.

If South Alberta will not loosen the enviromental laws and those regarding farm practices then they claim they will set up shop in Saskatchewan, in Iowa or in Mexico.

With Nafta and free trade , it then becomes a race to the bottom as far as labor and enviromental protections are concerned.

So let's stop eating pork.

q

Eat food - not too much - mostly vegitables.

It would appear as if Smithfield Foods has not learned the lessons from the infamous McLibel case: despite the UK's notoriously plaintiff favoring libel laws, they risk a public relations fiasco in taking on defendants whom can come off as sympathetic...and Tracy Worcester can easily be that.

It's not defamatory if it can be documented, is it. and it has been, repeatedly.

Pretty soon, whistleblowers will be labelled "terrorists" because they interfere with american business interests.

What a comfort that Gitmo is ready.

Do your business with your neighbors. Starve the far-flung capitalists.

at the risk of inviting a libel suit myself, Smithfield farms has a long and ugly rap sheet that is public record. the filmakers have nothing to fear.

also i have read reports that in Mexico that famous affliction is alternately called Nafta Flu and Smithfield Flu. both fair monikers. after NAFTA got passed Mexico could not defend itself from invasions by u.s. agribusiness. so smithfield moved its revolting operations south of the border. the flu in question first appeared in the neighborhood of a million pig smithfield farm in Mexico, one that could not have operated in the u.s.

Boycott pork.

I say just let the movie "leak" onto the internet if they're blocked by Smithfield outright from showing the movie.

Unfortunately, I highly doubt this will be a high grossing movie for obvious reasons.

I think the public would be better served with full access to this documentary much to the likes of "Earthlings." I had been contemplating going vegetarian on my own after reading articles here and there about the issues surrounding the consumption of red meat, but after I viewed that movie I stopped eating red meat altogether.

I think this movie might make others do the same, but it has to be viewed to do so.

What really astounds me is that these companies call themselves unregulatable, Bush styled, Texas-cowboy, vulture capitalists, and yet they leave money on the table in form of bio-gasible waste and offal, and lose some money! WTF! Even Norway knows better, so does Sweden! A town in Britain even does better - everybody else bio-gases this sewage, sells the gas for local heating and cooking, it can even run cars, Oslo runs its goddamn buses on the stuff! and you get a bagable dried sludge to sell as fertilizer to boot! I won't be putting my cash with these assholes, they don't know a valuable resource flow from a pile of pig-shit! Maybe the Chinese will teach them how to squeeze more out of the situation when they come investing? Have they over-looked the exponential rise in oil prices over the last few weeks? The "Stink" they make, is valuable methane gas potential of the waste flow escaping to the atmosphere! They need to make more money, get sued less, and gain neighborhood popularity by developing gas plants and fertilizer factories all around their operations. Maybe a truly voracious vulture capitalist can be sought out, to buy this effluent resource flow, and make a buck? But, don't leave money on the table boys, you're giving us a black eye, around the world!

our world is being rushed to its extinction at warp speed. save a pig and elect a politician
who agrees with your own mindset!

Arnold Mousetrouser, Australia:
And the end-product "meat" produced under such squalid and cruel factory conditions is useless anyway. No quality, texture, flavour, certainly not worth eating. Yet it is still being bought. Mad! AM, Oz

No it's not fit to eat. There are to many people on this planet for people to continue to eat meat. When you do you are also eating horrific pain and suffering. Think that doesn't matter to you? Think again.

Do you want to eat meat or drink clean water?

Sandy
My grown son was a vegetarian long before I saw a PETA documentary and became one myself. The more one learns about the source of their food as well as how inexpensive it can be to nurture the body, the more healthy we may become. Information is key.And it's all out there for the asking; books, film, or Grandparents.