11/25/17

Letter: which part of ecocide don't you understand?

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the Midwest and Great Plains are destroying waterways all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Factory farms are exempt from the Clean Air Act, even though they produce large quantities of toxic emissions that have been proven to harm human health. With many thousands of factory farms/CAFO’s [sic]in rural states that have little or no public health or environmental regulations, it’s time to ensure that our grandchildren will inherit an environment that is safe and pleasant to live in. That starts with a moratorium on new CAFO’s [sic] until adequate state and federal regulations can be developed to protect our most precious resource – our children.
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