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WCCOFF FACT SHEETS
click here to view fact sheets about Factory Farms.


IOWA SUPREME COURT OPINION OF CAFO'S! PLEASE READ!!!

Senate Bill 700 in California caused the new emissions standards they are imposing

September 16, 2003 PRESS RELEASE - Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Files Lawsuit Against Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development LLC

http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135--75227--,00.html

Dayton Daily News Editorial regarding Gov. Taft's signing of House Bill 152
Farm Profits Trump Public-Health Debate

http://www.daytondailynews.com/opinion/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/opinion_f3d3c5b223d9c0050085.html


Down on the Factory - A special 20 page report by The Dayton Daily News -

DDN Down on the Factory
Some of the articles include:

G.R.A.C.E. (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) - www.factoryfarm.org

Vreba-Hoff Dairy Corp. LLC and Vanderhoff Haley Dairies in Southern Michigan (developers of the Manders Dairy near Weston and the Cygnet Road dairy to be built this fall) have numerous violations.
Read the full story at www.nocafos.org

Farm Groups Demand Senate Action to Stop Mega Farms from Receiving Million Dollar Payments.
Read the full story: www.cfra.org/newsroom/newsreleases/Paymentlimits%201-28-02.htm

The Dirt on Factory Farms -
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Health/DirtFactoryFarms.html

The Meat Factory
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Environment/Meat_Factory.html

McFarms Go Hog Wild
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Environment/McFarm_HogWild.html

Families Against Rural Messes
http://www.farmweb.org

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Proximate Property Values:
The Appraisal Journal, July 2001

Nuisance Lawsuits On the Rise - www.nationalhogfarmer.com

AgriNews
http://agrinews.com

Potent Chemical Reaction -
http://www.mankatofreepress.com/archives/1999/991023.html

Studies Show Food from US Factory Farms Are a Major Health Hazard - http://www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/rach690.cfm

The Land Stewardship Project -
http://www.landstewardshipproject.org/programs_factoryfarms.html

The Rap Sheet on Animal Factories - www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/rapsheets

Farmer's Legal Action Group
http://www.flaginc.org

Family Farmer Organization
http://www.familyfarmer.org

National Family Farm Coalition
http://www.nffc.net

Iowa CAFO Air Quality Study
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/ehsrc/CAFOstudy.htm

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov

Ohio Environmental Council (OEC)
http://www.theoec.org

Western Organization of Resource Councils
http://www.worc.org/issues/factfarms.html

Farm Aid
http://www.farmaid.org

Midwest Environmental Advocates
http://www.midwestadvocates.org

American Public Health Association - Legislation, Advocacy & Policy
http://apha.org/legislative/