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Indiana representative Ben GiaQuinta says the news about the Schwab Foundation convinced him that he needs to introduce a bill in the next legislative session to beef up oversight of charitable foundations

On Wednesday, ag department director Andy Miller met with the state’s top pork producers to discuss just how that was going to be done. Speaking to a standing room only crowd at the Midwest Pork Conferences in Indianapolis, Miller said the first step toward the goal is educating. “We have to educate the rest of the state on just how important livestock expansion, in particular pork production, is,” Miller said. He pledged that the new department would be aggressively working to educate local officials and zoning boards on the economic benefits of livestock operations in their area. He criticized efforts by local communities to enact environmental regulations and set-back requirements that were more stringent that state statutes. He stopped short, however, of calling for statewide mandates. Instead he called for “Livestock Friendly” designations to be awarded to certain counties. Under this plan, a county would receive certain economic incentives if they would adopt zoning and permitting requirements that would be friendly to confined feeding operations (CAFOs).

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