"When I first got involved in politics I thought the government would never let the companies get away with wrecking people’s homes and lives. But I found out that justice doesn’t always prevail. The American government is bought and paid for by powerful people, and the big corporate [farm operations] have a position in both parties."
– Don Webb, head of the NC Alliance for a Responsible Swine Industry
"...Pfiesteria [the ‘cell from hell’] thrives in waterways overloaded with nitrogen and phosphorus, often the result of animal runoff....The areas hardest hit by pfiesteria-induced fish kills are dominated by factory farms: hogs near Pamlico Sound and chickens in the Chesapeake watershed..." Sharon Guynup in the Jan-Feb. 99 issue of Sierra
"It’s the plain truth: employers overstate the impact and try to pit workers against us and the environmental community with job blackmail."
– Robert Wages, president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, in "Brothers and Sisters" in the Jan.-Feb. 99 issue of Sierra