Exclusive: How Big Pork takes money from small farmers — then uses it to lobby against them

Russ Kremer is a longtime hog farmer in the Missouri Ozarks, where his 2,000 pigs have plenty of space to roam on his 150 acres. He doesn’t feed them antibiotics, and you won’t find a single animal in a cage. Kremer is decidedly anti-industrial hog farming. Whenever he sends his pigs to slaughter, l