I saw that NY Times editorial too, good for them. About time mainstream papers cover this aspect of factory farming that animal agri-business doesn't want us to know about. We all need to reduce our consumption of pork and other animal products, especially factory farmed. The more money animal agribusiness has, the easier it is for them to get away with practices like this.

The Chesapeake Bay is all but dead.  Now Smithfield is twisting the blade.  A few million more pounds of hog manure will finish the job.  Keep eating your bacon, environmentalists...

I wish I knew what would kick people in the gut enough for them to say enough is enough.  My father was just in the hospital with blood clots in his leg and in his lungs.  He's overweight and has a terrible diet.  He's now on warfarin (which was originally manufactured as a rat poison), still has the clots, but the other day I found him eating a deep dish Canadian bacon pizza with a big glass of soda.  Personally, I think someone needs to jump down the throat of physicians, as well, for being so irresponsible as to prescribe people medicines without addressing dietary and lifestyle issues.  

Maybe if more doctors were scaring people with the realities of their fatty, meat-laden diets, more people would be eschewing meat.  I say physicians need to come out in force, too, and quit hiding behind their pharmaceutical reps.