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| CAFOs Hurt Family Farms |
| Large corporate-owned farms, or concentrated animal feeding operations
(CAFOs), pose enormous health and environmental threats, generate
extensive air and water pollution, and push family farmers out of
business. The Farm Bureau, an organization that small family farmers
rely on for support, often turns its back on the family farmer and
instead promotes CAFOs. In one instance the Iowa Farm Bureau led the
unsuccessful effort to defeat family farm-friendly legislation, Iowa
SF 2293. The bill increases the Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
and local control over CAFO construction and reduces the air and water
pollution caused by these massive factory farms. Despite the Farm
Bureau's success in substantially weakening the effect of the bill
by delaying its effective date, the family farmers still won this
battle.
Ran 7/22/02 |
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106 East Doty Street, Suite 200 § Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Phone: 608-252-9800 § Fax: 608-252-9828
Email: [email protected]
