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HSUS unveils new legal tactic
Story Date: 7/12/2012
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Source: Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE, 7/11/12
The Humane Society of the United States announced this morning that it will sue 51 pig producing operations in Iowa, North Carolina and Oklahoma for “unreported releases of the hazardous pollutant ammonia,” the organization said in a news release.
The group’s contention is that pigs kept in gestation crates emit “hundreds of pounds of airborne ammonia per day” that endangers “communities, farm animals, wildlife and the environment.” Those emissions are of a size that they should be reported to state and local emergency response teams, and are not, HSUS says.
The ammonia emissions “illustrate how some of the wealthiest pork-producing companies apparently refuse to comply with a critical federal law for public health protection.”
Both the NPPC and Caryville, Ill.-based Maschhoffs, one of the companies named in the news release, indicated at press time that they were reviewing the allegations and would comment when that process was finished.
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