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Opinion: Put all hog confinements in Mexico, spare rural Iowa the destruction

A few month back I offered my opinion on CAFOs. I suggested all CAFOs (hog confinements) be moved to Mexico. I spoke to one of the Mexican trade specialists at the Mexican Trade Council in Chicago on Michigan Avenue concerning this issue. The specialist I spoke with wanted every CAFO they could get their hands on.

“We have the land, we have the labor and the knowledge to implement the needs and care of these hogs.” Then she went on to tell me what China was already doing. We are finishing hogs for the Chinese to the point of delivering freshly dressed carcasses hung on racks then loaded into refrigerated ships staffed with personnel that process these carcasses familiar to the needs of their population. All of this is completed within fully equipped butchering facilities aboard the ships during the time the ocean voyage back to China takes. Did you know that just the city of Hong Kong consumes over 50,000 hogs a day?

The Future

I see a time when Supervalu (3,400 locations), Winn- Dixie (1,000 stores), Food Giant (1,000 plus stores) and the list gets bigger… will put entities like Prestage Foods out of business… they will become obsolete.

The meat buyers could travel directly to Mexico, sit down with a large hog processor and place custom orders down to how many ounces each pork chop should weigh. This meat will be packaged using their own packaging identification. Overall the supermarket’s cost per pound would drop like a rock….plus all the meat can be 100% organic…..no steroids. All they need to do is place orders enough in advance to allow natural growth.

If you multiply what I described by just a dozen supermarket chains there would be no need to build CAFOs in rural Iowa or anywhere else in America. Aren’t we the people who walked on the moon? Didn’t we come out with computers before anyone else….and now we think it’s OK to engulf Iowa communities in pig shit and destroy the entire town….I don’t think so. Mexico is open for business, there are no roadblocks, there’s no wall yet.

(Contact information for Mexican Consultant: 312-855-1380)

Peter Children
Mason City, Iowa


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