Gov. Daniels: “No Holds Bared”
Apparently, the Governor attended the Indiana Farm Bureau state convention over the weekend, and confirmed his vision of Indiana’s industrial agriculture future:
Both Governor Mitch Daniels and Indiana Farm Bureau President Don Villwock stressed growth in the state’s agriculture sector during remarks at the Farm Bureau State Convention over the weekend. Daniels said his administration remains committed to “No holds bared, no equivocation,” when it comes to growth in agriculture. In his annual address,Villwock stressed that farmers have a responsibility to facilitate and invest in this growth. He stressed that this is especially important in the areas of livestock expansion and a corn checkoff program.
Link (Hoosier Ag Today, Gary Truitt). This site has links to audio of the speaker.
For the Farm Bureau, the problem folks are having with CAFO’s around the state are still based on ignorance, and noted that farmers need to be “more aggressive” in their “truth telling” about factory farming. The truth: CAFO’s pose “no threat” to Indiana’s environment. That’s it, none, nothing, nada. So stop all your silly complaining.
December 13th, 2006 20:46
Thomas,
With the help of other concerned farmers and rual citizens I would like to begin an “educational” program for those who do not understand, or, as our current state administration seems to think, are too ignorant to properly appreciate, confined feeding animal agriculture. My wife and I were ruthlessly driven from our 120-acre small livestock farm by the reckless and intentional placement of an open sewage pit 600 feet west and 15 feet up hill of our home by a confined feeder. The public needs to come visit our place and receive a real education on confined feeding and its effects on human health, well-being, and the environment.
Thank you,
Eric
Eric Stickdorn
Brookstone Terrace Farm
PO Box 63
New Lisbon, IN 47366
765-478-5649
December 15th, 2006 11:25
Transparency needs to be brought to the Farm Bureau. While they say they are the champions of the “family farm”, CAFO’s are not farms. All one needs to do is read a text book from any land-grant college and these operations are refered to as “industrialized agriculture”, not farms. They should be governed by the Superfund as any other industry. If you track Farm Bureau’s activities at the national level they always come down on the side of industrialized agriculture. These CAFO’s and Farm Bureau treat us like mushrooms, keep us in the dark and cover us in manure.
December 30th, 2006 13:44
For six years we have fought a losing battle in our own back yard against CFO’s.
All that we hold dear has been destroyed
our community
our property
our home
our lives
We have documented it all-to no good end. The government on every level has failed us or betrayed us.
We have not only been stripped of our rights. but harrassed, intimidated, shot at, libeled by the press and others, threatened, traps set up in the road, roadblocks daring us to re-act, harassed through the mail-it goes on and on.
And there is nothing these people can do to us for witch the prosecutor will prosecute them. Not harassment, not intimadation, not forgery, not perjury-NOTHING. Sending them (members and friends of the industry) the message that they can do anything they want to us with impunity.
Bill Vilwock said in a telephone conversation with me, “There is nothing Farm Bureau can or will do for you”.
Governor Daniels claims ‘no holds barred’ in promoting,encouraging, and protecting these filthy, stinking,disease-ridden machinations of the corporate mentality.
We are convinced that there is no one who will help us. We can’t even move. Our home is worthless-we can’t even get a realtor to list us. They all shake their heads and say, “You’ll never sell it”.
We fear we are driven from our home with no compensation, broke and discraced. We cannot afford to simply abandon our home of sixteen years and cannot endure the harassment and threat of polution and disease.
We are trying to find a solution. To date, no solution exist.
(I have pictures, video, and documentation that I am sorry I cannot present here.)
Michael Faries
7858 Meridian Road
Oakland City, IN 47660-9004
812-789-8474
justfaris@netzero.net