Franken-Lies-And-the-Lying-Liars-Who-Tell

In 1995, a spill from one of these lagoons killed a billion fish in the Neuse River of
North Carolina. Every year since, dead fish have continued to wash up onshore by the tens of
millions. They're not dying from the smell. No, these fish are falling prey to a previously unknown
life form spawned in the pig shit basins and carried into the river waters: the pfiesteria
piscicida. This dinoflagellate is a microscopic free-swimming single-celled organism that can
mutate into at least twenty-four different forms, depending on its prey. It attacks the fish,
stunning them with one toxin, then liquefying their flesh with another, then feasting on the
liquefied skin and tissue. This is why so many of the fish in the Neuse (dead and alive) sport
horrible, bloody lesions.
The fishermen and bridge keepers of the Neuse have also developed these ugly sores,
which is why they don't wear shorts on a first date. Of course, it's hard to get a date when you
suffer from lethargy, headaches, and such severe cognitive impairment that you can't remember
your own name or dial a telephone number. Which pfiesteria also causes.
Because the meat industry in this country has become vertically integrated, Big Meat
has put the small independent hog farmer out of business. Twenty years ago there were
27,500 family hog farmers in North Carolina alone. Now there are none. Today, a single
company named Smithfield owns more than 70 percent of the state's hogs. Small farmers are
learning that you can't beat Big Meat.
Nobody claims that factory farming is pretty. But its defenders say that it brings
economies of scale that drive down the price of meat for consumers. This is true as long as
you don't factor in the shit. Bobby Kennedy, Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, told
me that, if the waste were disposed of legally, the cost of pork from factory farms would be
higher than pork from family farms.
They cannot produce hogs, or pork chops, or bacon more efficiently than a family
farm without breaking the law. They aren't about the free market, because they can't compete
without committing criminal acts every single day. Their whole system is built on being able
to disable or capture government agencies.
They're not in favor of responsibility, or democracy, or private property. It's just about
privatizing the air, water, all the things that the public's supposed to own. They are try ing to
take them away from us, privatize them, and liquidate them for cash.
That's the only coherent philosophy they have. That's it.
Yeah!