August 2006
The Arizona initiative, Proposition 204, to reduce confinement of
pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal, is being fiercely opposed by the
pig industry.
In the state of Arizona there is no veal production and only one company
raises pigs for food, PFFJ (Pigs for Farmer John).
The company clearly doesn’t want its consumers to see how pigs are raised in
today’s factory farms as it has denied entrance to reporters, citing
disease-related hazards as the reason.
One reporter, who even offered to undergo the same sanitizing procedures as
plant workers do, still was denied entrance; although he got company
approval to send its own crew in to videotape conditions there. It says the
media will have to rely on that video.
According to a state wide poll the majority of the surveyed support the
initiative (57% strongly and 21% somewhat) and only 13% strongly oppose it.
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