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It's also interesting what the company says in return: http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/ http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/

by Hopka 17y ago

mmaunder 17y ago
If the article is incorrect then Smithfield can and should sue Rolling Stone for libel. But they're not going to because it's true.
- toothcomb 17y ago
  It's what they don't deny that still worries me. I was hoping that the family being consumed by the lagoon was a non truth. I read it as tragic comedy (shame on me)
  - astine 17y ago
    It's weirdly like that scene out of the Jungle where the guy falls in the lard pit and becomes part of the product.
  - viggity 17y ago
    They contest 29 different assertions made by the rolling stones author. What didn't they deny?
- viggity 17y ago
  The want the whole thing to go away, even if you're in the right, a lot of times it isn't worth suing. Look at Barbra Streisand - some dude took pictures of her beach house, she was upset and sued him over it. So instead of the handful of people seeing the photos, the law suit hit all the news stations and tens of thousands of people saw the pictures.
- Confusion 17y ago
  What kind of position is that?! Someone accused you of wrongdoing and the only valid defense is suing the other? What happened to correcting each other? Accepting that misinterpretations and mistakes are human?
danparsonson 17y ago
For further comparison, BBC article about the Polish farms operated by the same company here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm.
alecco 17y ago
A couple of for-show plants in US to cover the madness in now exported to Mexico and other countries with lax or unenforced pollution laws. Remember the original swine flu? Not the 2009 H1N1 human outbreak, the ones before that killing vast numbers of pigs in industrial farms.
helium 17y ago
Hmm. Why don't they let someone come film a random(typical) hog farm to document the conditions?
- malte 17y ago
  A few weeks ago, German newscasts aired some footage secretly recorded from a poultry farm that was a major supplier of one of the biggest (and well-known) meat processors in Germany. The material really was disgusting: workers beating animals to death, throwing transportation boxes (thus, breaking the animals' bones) etc. I'm not a hardliner-PETA-animal-rights-activist, but I think there is good reason to not naively believe those statements of companies like Smithfield.
  - toothcomb 17y ago
    That's sad, I hope that these are the extreme or the one offs, just as I hope you tube comments aren't representative of real people's views. Either way it doesn't make it alright.
  - d_c 17y ago
    You can find the video here, the show that ran it is called "Report Mainz" (Mainz is the name of a town). http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gesundheitlicheaufklaerung.de%2Fvorwurfe-gegen-wiesenhof-tierqualerei&sl=de&tl=en http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl...

It's also interesting what the company says in return: http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/ http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/

by Hopka 17y ago

It's also interesting what the company says in return: http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/ http://www.smithfieldfoods.com/RollingStone/

mmaunder 17y ago

If the article is incorrect then Smithfield can and should sue Rolling Stone for libel. But they're not going to because it's true.

toothcomb 17y ago
It's what they don't deny that still worries me. I was hoping that the family being consumed by the lagoon was a non truth. I read it as tragic comedy (shame on me)
- astine 17y ago
  It's weirdly like that scene out of the Jungle where the guy falls in the lard pit and becomes part of the product.
- viggity 17y ago
  They contest 29 different assertions made by the rolling stones author. What didn't they deny?
viggity 17y ago
The want the whole thing to go away, even if you're in the right, a lot of times it isn't worth suing. Look at Barbra Streisand - some dude took pictures of her beach house, she was upset and sued him over it. So instead of the handful of people seeing the photos, the law suit hit all the news stations and tens of thousands of people saw the pictures.
Confusion 17y ago
What kind of position is that?! Someone accused you of wrongdoing and the only valid defense is suing the other? What happened to correcting each other? Accepting that misinterpretations and mistakes are human?

danparsonson 17y ago

For further comparison, BBC article about the Polish farms operated by the same company here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4035081.stm.

alecco 17y ago

A couple of for-show plants in US to cover the madness in now exported to Mexico and other countries with lax or unenforced pollution laws. Remember the original swine flu? Not the 2009 H1N1 human outbreak, the ones before that killing vast numbers of pigs in industrial farms.

helium 17y ago

Hmm. Why don't they let someone come film a random(typical) hog farm to document the conditions?

malte 17y ago
A few weeks ago, German newscasts aired some footage secretly recorded from a poultry farm that was a major supplier of one of the biggest (and well-known) meat processors in Germany. The material really was disgusting: workers beating animals to death, throwing transportation boxes (thus, breaking the animals' bones) etc. I'm not a hardliner-PETA-animal-rights-activist, but I think there is good reason to not naively believe those statements of companies like Smithfield.
- toothcomb 17y ago
  That's sad, I hope that these are the extreme or the one offs, just as I hope you tube comments aren't representative of real people's views. Either way it doesn't make it alright.
- d_c 17y ago
  You can find the video here, the show that ran it is called "Report Mainz" (Mainz is the name of a town). http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gesundheitlicheaufklaerung.de%2Fvorwurfe-gegen-wiesenhof-tierqualerei&sl=de&tl=en http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl...