Signals, Systems, and Environment in Industrial Food Production

Abstract

It seems that wherever people start large scale swine production facilities, the neighbors begin to complain. Some are worried about odor and water; others about the fate of farms and farmers who operate on smaller scales of production; still others about the possibilities of the demise of rural communities heralded by Goldschmidt in his studies of industrial agriculture in California (Goldschmidt 1978, Labao 1993).