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Elise Anne Jeanne Comte Wiryawan Kuncoro 0850094 (International Class Batch 49)
Berita pada Raleigh dan peneliti melaporkan bahwa penelitian Universitas North Carolina menemukan bahwa lagoons bukan satu-satunya sumber kontaminasi pada air tanah. Dapat dilihat bahwa sepenuhnya kontaminasi air tanah juga akibat dari praktek dalam menggunakan limbah peternakan melalui penyemprotan terhadap tanaman dari penyimpanan awal limbah peternakan lagoon tersebut. Lagoon yang tidak dapat digunakan tidak dapat ditutupi dengan menggunakan atap untuk menghindari hujan atau menutupnya dengan menggunakan ruangan agar bau kotoran tersebut tidak keluar, jumlah kotoran ini memberi efek utnuk wilayah yang cukup luas yaitu 5 8 hektar dan merupakan hal yang penting untuk masyarakat setempat ememperoleh sinar matahari secara langsungn untuk menciptakan situasi alam yang akan mengindari efek acun kimia dan membunuh bakteri yang terbentuk
maintain wetland, investigate 18 different technologies to modify current methods of swine waste removal at hog farms, implemented EMSs, invested in Best BioFuels, built cooling towers, partenered with corrugated packaging suppliers, modified facilities to allow biogas. Smithfield Foods Environmental Policy Statement consist of polluting prevention, comply to environmental legislation and regulations, and full responsible to protect the environment. Strategy for Responsible Growth which are the accountability, transparency, and sustainability that will make impact on wove in stewardship responsibilities, reduce frequency of employees injuries, enhance communications with external stakeholders, and continue to expand community involvement.
As we know, a waste that are produced by hog farms in a large number of scale could not be easily accommodated, so that it created public health effect such as debilitating asthma, and also it threw away at the lagoon that caused groundwater contamination. This condition describes environmental pollution. Vertical Integration had been done by Smithfield, limited farm machinery for new method of raising hogs made this company straight purchased from manufacturer. So it made Smithfield in strong bargain position, so that the farmer could do nothing but signing the contract farming (the responsibility of the farm family was to raise hogs to marketable weight as quickly and as efficiently as possible Smithfield had already set the price to buy that hogs in the beginning of the contract). In labor problem, many of the jobs were regarded as hard and unpleasant, so that the workers were paid between $7 until $8 per hour, untrained and they were also taken from poorly educated area residents. But different circumstance happened in Smithfield, skilled workers were paid from $10 until $12 per hour, so that it created highly turnover because of the strenuous job demands. The way how Smithfield take care responsibility by establishing policy statement and strategy and code of business conduct were viewed as a good handling of being more responsible to their environment. Smithfield doing vertigal integration and make benefit in its strategic fit which are they can share together in activity of operations, meat packing, and also distribution.
Recommendation
What company had done so far was good enough, even though it was such legal industry, but its activities made an unfriendly environmental such as generating pollution from its smell and waste. But in order to create operational continuity the company should pay more attention to workers needs, environments needs and might be doing Costumer Social Responsibility.