Beyond Factory Farming: Corporate Hog Barns and the Threat to ...

The restructuring of hog production in North
America provides a rare clear view into the
mechanisms and effects of corporate globalization.
And the community-by-community fight to stop the
incursion of corporate mega-barns and retain family
farm hog production provides an example of effective
and gritty local resistance to the most negative
aspects of globalization.
Beyond Factory Farming looks at the changes that
have resulted in the hog sector and the effects that
these changes have had on our family farms, the food
we eat, our conditions of work, our communities, and
the relationship of governments to corporations and
citizens. Through diverse perspectives, this book
highlights, not just the Canadian hog sector, but
structural forces at work reshaping communities and
economies around the world.
Beyond Factory Farming places the fight to save the
family farm and the fight for more sustainable and
responsive local economies within the larger context of
a global struggle to restore democracy and economic
sanity in the face of runaway corporate power. It is a
chronicle of what we have lost, a cautionary tale, and
a message of hope for the future.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
ISBN 0-88627-366-8
$19.95.