Our needs 'hogging' precious resources

I think the element of the swine business that baffles me most are the externalities involved. The fact that thousands of tons of waste are seeping into water tables, surface water, private wells etc. is unacceptable- unless your in the corporate world where you can find and create loopholes where it is acceptable. The people of the eastern counties of North Carolina suffer a great deal of the costs associated with the large scale CAFO hog industry in their back yards and do not get to share in the benefits. The vertically integrated corporations have schemed their way out of following environmental regulations and therefore do not have to worry about the costs of their actions- a cost external to their production and profit. Unsustainable waste management practices affect the surrounding environment, their ecosystems and the people that inhabit such areas as well, the impacts of such damaging practices reach far and wide and will only become more apparent as time goes on and it's too late to reverse. Hopefully the work that advocates for more sustainable swine farming practices have been pursuing will continue to affect change within the industry.