CAFO’s Spark Opinions
From today’s Pal-Item, Kathryn Petry of Lynn, Indiana (that’s Randolph County) has an opinion piece up:
From a report from IDEM, we have 30 large livestock operations in Randolph County. Another one is the Union Go milk cow operation. Fifteen (including permits) of these are hog CAFOs new to the county and will put over 100,000 more hogs (sows, pigs and finishing hogs) in Randolph County. Corporations from North Carolina (Maxwell) and Pennsylvania (Country View Farms) have contracts with local farmers to raise these animals.
As county residents, we need to consider the effect this will have on our water supply (pollution and quantity) and air pollution from the hogs in confinement and disposing of manure. As taxpayers we need to be concerned about the cost of road repair, devaluation of homes and farmland near these operations. Consider how this will affect the number of children we have in our schools with younger people not coming to the county or staying here.
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