Libertarian Utopia: Pig Farm Caught On Camera Spraying Swine Waste Over People’s Homes

Let’s have a talk about pigs. No, this isn’t a cop article — grow up. It’s about Chris Christie. And also livestock. Specifically, emissions from livestock, apart from the hot air and clouds of oxycontin dust produced by Rush Limbaugh. The agriculture industry is responsible for a pretty stunning 8 to 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally; in fact producing a half-pound of hamburger releases more greenhouse gases than driving a 3,000-pound car 10 miles. Most of that comes from the nitrous oxide released during soil tilling, which has dramatically increased as a result of using modern high-nitrogen fertilizers. Nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide are largely undetectable, though — unlike another kind of emission from certain animal farms. You guessed it: daily rainstorms of hot, concentrated pig sewage!

Mark Devries isn’t just the maker of Speciesism: The Movie, he’s also the guy behind Factoryfarmdrones.com. Since 2012, this website has been “secretly using spy drones to investigate and expose the environmental devastation caused by factory farms.” The truely horrendous nature of meat production in America these days is usually pretty well hidden; set well off of main roads with long driveways, and hidden behind thick copses of trees, the modern meat factory hide in idyllic beauty like weeping tumors beneath an evening gown.

Mark’s aerial camera drones are the hand flying up Factory Farming’s skirt, flying over the illusory trees to reveal the real places where bacon comes from. In this case, a Smithfield Farms’ plant…one of a stunning two thousand in North Carolina alone. Interesting thing about Smithfield: Despite its All-American name, the world’s largest pork producer is actually a fully owned subsidiary of the Chinese Shuanghui Group. This one company doubled the number of U.S. jobs tied directly to Chinese investment, and may be the single largest Chinese company operating on these shores.

In this video, you can see one of the most defining features of any large meat factory today, Smithfield included; no, it’s not the howls of misery from animals smarter than dogs, who live out their godforsaken lives in steel cages before being hacked to pieces. That’s a different audio reel. And no, it’s not Chinese slave laborers throwing baby female pigs down stairwells, while their fellow workers jump off of farm rooftops. Though that footage probably exists too.

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Iowa GOP rep. arrested for having sex with incapacitated wife after judge told him not to

A Republican state representative in Iowa was arrested last week on a third-degree sexual abuse charge for having sex with his wife after a court told him that she lacked the mental capacity to consent, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reports.

According to the criminal complaint, on May 15, 2014, Representative Henry Rayhons (R) was told by officials at the Concord Care Center that his wife, Donna Rayhons, no longer possessed the mental capacity to consent to sexual relations.

A little more than a month later, Donna Rayhons’ daughter, Suzan Brunes, was made her mother’s temporary guardian after video surveillance captured Rayhons leaving his wife’s room and discarding her underclothes in a nearby laundry hamper.

Donna Rayhons died on August 8, 2014 at the age of 78.Donna Rayhons’ roommate corroborated the video evidence, saying that on the same day he discarded her undergarments, she “heard noises indicating to her that Henry Rayhons was having sex” with his mentally incapacitated wife.

The executive director of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Elizabeth Barnhill, told the Press-Citizen that until 25 years ago, it was legal in Iowa for a man to have sex with his wife against her will — but that even with a spousal rape law in place, “convictions are rare,” especially when the victim is incapable of testifying.