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An online training guide from the Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club.: "Stopping CAFO Pollution"
[link to guide here]


Sierra Club article: "Keep Animal Waste Out of Our Waters"
Sierra Club Currents, Vol. IV #33, Sept. 30, 2008 [read report here]


United States Government Accounting Office (GAO) Report to Congessional Requesters:
CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS.... [read report here]


What’s the best site for a ‘factory farm’?
BGSU student’s model may help

Click here for more information


WCCOFF FACT SHEETS

Click here to view fact sheets about factory farms


Iowa Supreme Court Opinion of CAFOs!
Please read!!


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


Dayton Daily News Editorial regarding Gov. Taft's signing of House Bill 152

Farm Profits Trump !Public-Health Debate - August 16, 2003



Washington, DC - 04/29/2008 - Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses “Unacceptable” Risks to Public Health, Environment Pew Commission

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Files Lawsuit Against Vreba-Hoff Dairy Development LLC

PRES RELEASE: DEQ Files Suit against CAFO - September 16, 2003

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

DDN Down on the Factory
Some of the articles include:
  • Factory Farmers blamed for outbreak that killed 104 in Milwaukee in 1993. Officials say farm waste polluted city's water system in 1993.
  • Ohio Farm Bureau a powerful advocate for mega farms
  • Buckeye Egg Farm violations among worst in country
  • Lucrative megafarm market lures Europeans - Foreigners pulling up roots and migrating to America in droves
  • Details sought on farm emissions - Study: Feds don't effectively monitor toxic gas

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/