Tietz

Timothy Tietz, hit hot spots fat a house fire on Stanley Street in Schenectady.

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Tietz goes on to quote the then-chairman of Smithfield, one Joseph Luter III, as saying that the company had been charged by the Environmental Protection Agency with "a very, very small percent" (seventy-four at the time, compared to 2.5 million) of what he viewed as potential charges.

Leslie Hatfield: Doth Smithfield Protest Too Much? Swine Flu Brings Focus to Factory Farm Practices 2009

In it, Tietz points out that a single Smithfield plant in Utah, housing a half million animals, generates more fecal waste per year than the 1.5 million people in Manhattan.

Leslie Hatfield: Doth Smithfield Protest Too Much? Swine Flu Brings Focus to Factory Farm Practices 2009

Through his investigation of Smithfield Foods, Tietz exposes the "dirty secret of the nations top hog producer" and explains how the confinement of hundreds of thousands of animals in over-crowded, unsanitary conditions, also produces millions of tons of animal waste that damages the ecosystems in nearby communities and poses a real and ongoing threat to human health:

Deirdre Imus: Beyond Swine Flu - Could Factory Farms Be the Cause of the Next Man-Made Pandemic? 2009

A number of things inspired me to give it a go, including Joi Ito's blog entries about his own vegan bodyhacking experiment, and this Rolling Stone article by Jeff Tietz.

Boing Boing 2007

Also from Tietz, on the impact of all that waste in waterways:

Leslie Hatfield: Doth Smithfield Protest Too Much? Swine Flu Brings Focus to Factory Farm Practices 2009

In an eight page 29-point response Smithfield Foods tries valiantly to refute Tietz 'charges of wanton pollution and animal abuse.

Rolling Stone, Gourmet Magazines Turn Up Heat on Factory Farmers 2007

Instead of defending the air in hog pens which Tietz says is barely breathable from heat, chemical fumes and uncollected animal excrement, Smithfield writes, "It is extremely rare when mechanical failure of ventilation systems causes death of animals due to indoor air quality."

Rolling Stone, Gourmet Magazines Turn Up Heat on Factory Farmers 2007

Kohl and Janssen had stopped at the haberdashery department at Tietz, the massive department store that dominated the north side of Alexander Plaza, near Kripo headquarters.

Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004

Russ Nelson of Nelson Tietz & Hoye, a real estate consulting firm here.

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