Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

Pub Date: 2009-02-17 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins When Robert F. Kennedy. Jr.. first asked Nicolette Hahn Niman to head up his environmental organizations hog campaign. she balked Investigating hog manure pollution was hardly the. glamorous assignment she pictured when leaving everything to work for him in New York. But Kennedy. she discovered. is not a man who takes no for an answer. Thus began Nimans fascinating odyssey into the inner workings of the factory farm industry and her transformation into an intrepid environmental lawyer who goes up against the big business farming establishment and - unexpectedly -. finds love along the way Starting her work for Kennedys organization in North Carolina. Niman uncovers the shocking practices of hog factory farms. including inhumane animal confinement and . devastating water and air pollution She organizes...