Raising a Stink

“Raising a Stink is not merely about pig stuff, but about grassroots democracy battling corporate autocracy. It’s an inspiring story of ordinary Americans standing up to hoggish greed.”—Jim Hightower, author of If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates

“Raising a Stink forces any of us who enjoys pork chops, a side of bacon, or a little sausage on our pizza to ask what responsibility we all have to know what industry we are supporting.”—Al Tompkins, writer, teacher, and journalist

“I know of no other book that illuminates so clearly why some farmers embrace the industrialization of agriculture while other family farmers so strongly resist it and why some in rural communities support ‘mega-hog farms’ while others adamantly oppose them.”—John Ikerd, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, University of Missouri

"A glimmer of hope for grass-roots reform of American farming practices. . . . Johnsen offers journalism at its peak—her book is an insightful, well-grounded study of the opposition to factory hog farms in Nebraska during the late 1990s."—Claire Strom, Montana, Magazine of Western History