The Star Press: Women Lead Fight Against Industrial Ag
Seth Slabaugh has quite a lengthy piece up at the Star Press about the effort of several women to combat the influx of CAFO’s into rural Indiana. He basically profiles Barbara Cox, but Julie Alexander, Dianne Richardson and Cathy Goins all get coverage, as does Wendy Carpenter, Janet Confer, Liz Thomas, and Nellie Seal:
In rural East Central Indiana, women are organizing their neighbors to battle the influx of swine and dairy herds whose owners are from places such as The Netherlands and North Carolina, where there are moratoriums on pork and milk expansion. Strategies include trying to get local ordinances and state laws enacted.Organizers of local CAFO opponents are typically grandmothers and/or mothers who own farms that have been in their families for decades.
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