NPR: Why does it matter how you raise these things that we're gonna kill almost immediately upon their maturity? George Huff: I think the answer is the same as for those of us who are human -- we're born to die; what's done in between is what's called life. That's where this kind of treatment of animals is beneath what we're capable of as humans, and I'm hopeful people will understand that and abandon that practice.
Huff, a country lawyer, recently lost his family hog farm to an industrial operation. From NPR's Changing Face of America: Missouri Farms. Other recent NPR highlights include: