Senator Tom Harkin is holding emergency hearings on swine flu. We think it's critical he haul in the corporate hog farmers before Congress for answers. But Sen. Harkin is from Iowa a state that has -- you guessed it -- a LOT of corporate hog farms. 

Will you take a minute and ask Senator Harkin to include corporate hog farms in his hearings? 

Corporate hog farms are ridiculously bad for our environment. According to research, a corporate farm with 10,000 hogs produces as much waste each day as a 25,000 person city -- and without the impressive sewage management systems we have in our cities. 

Instead, corporate hog farmers create hundreds of waste lagoons per farm, with each waste lagoon covering as much as 120,000 square feet. Any leak or breach in a lagoon leads to massive water contamination, and needless to say, massive swarms of flies live off the hogs and their waste. 

Some research into the Mexican swine flu outbreak points the finger of blame at these massive swarms of flies that surround corporate hog farms south of the border. 

So help us make sure Sen. Harkin knows that corporate hog farms need to be investigated as part of his work: