Large-scale industrial animal farms produce more than 130 times the amount of waste in the United States that humans do. One pig excretes about three times as much waste as one person, so some large hog farms yield volumes of untreated hog manure equivalent to the human waste of a city of 360,000 Jleople. In Texas the amount of manure produced 280 billion pounds-that's about 40 pounds .Qer Texan. But
unlike human waste, which is usually treated, most animal waste is either spread out directly over fields as manure or liquefied and stored in open lagoons for later use. This waste, laced with antibiotics, enters lakes and streams through runoff especially during high rains; lagoons can leak, spill and contaminate during flooding. -MAUDE BARLOW + TONY CLARKE
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