STOP HOG FACTORY FARM NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR

STOP HOG FACTORY FARM NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR By Virginia Kirsch Badgerwood LLC wants to build and operate a 26,000 hog factory-farm in Eileen Township of Bayfield County. Badgerwood LLC is from the Reicks View Farms in Iowa. Why choose such an ecologically delicate area close to Lake Superior? Perhaps the plan includes exporting animals from the Great Lakes by rail to British Columbia and then by ship to China. This long journey sounds like cruel treatment! The proposed hog factory farm is 8 miles from Lake Superior. The proposed factory farm is in the Fish Creek Watershed, which contains outstanding resource waters. Lake Superior holds 10 percent ...