Comments on: Maybe next year http://www.kemplog.com/2007/05/01/maybe-next-year/ Life and law in Eastern Indiana Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:36:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Pat Gerrich http://www.kemplog.com/2007/05/01/maybe-next-year/#comment-14986 Pat Gerrich Wed, 02 May 2007 20:35:31 +0000 http://www.kemplog.com/2007/05/01/maybe-next-year/#comment-14986 Well, our state has chose to go with money instead of health issues. Senator Gard tried to blame someone else for the final verdict, but I don't buy that for one minute. The president of Indiana Farm Bureau needs to quit whining about us attacking agriculture. It is agriculture that is attacking us(CAFOs). There were a few good people out there that tried to make a difference-Senator Paul, Rep. Pflum, and Rep. Saunders to name a few and I thank them. It is going to take a big disaster to get the point across that CAFOs are indeed a menace to our environment. I used to look at cows, pigs, and chickens and think oh country life, now I shutter when I see thousands packed together and creating all that manure. It has to end somewhere and it won't be pretty. Well, our state has chose to go with money instead of health issues. Senator Gard tried to blame someone else for the final verdict, but I don’t buy that for one minute. The president of Indiana Farm Bureau needs to quit whining about us attacking agriculture. It is agriculture that is attacking us(CAFOs). There were a few good people out there that tried to make a difference-Senator Paul, Rep. Pflum, and Rep. Saunders to name a few and I thank them. It is going to take a big disaster to get the point across that CAFOs are indeed a menace to our environment. I used to look at cows, pigs, and chickens and think oh country life, now I shutter when I see thousands packed together and creating all that manure. It has to end somewhere and it won’t be pretty.

]]> By: Pila http://www.kemplog.com/2007/05/01/maybe-next-year/#comment-14980 Pila Wed, 02 May 2007 15:12:34 +0000 http://www.kemplog.com/2007/05/01/maybe-next-year/#comment-14980 I'm no expert, but On Tap magazine, which has a connection to the USDA, talks about taking a watershed approach when dealing with small community water systems. Wouldn't it make some sense for CAFO regulation to be done that way, also, at least in regard to water quality issues? Watersheds don't begin and end at state and county lines. (Sorry, I keep breaking my "no commenting" rule.) I’m no expert, but On Tap magazine, which has a connection to the USDA, talks about taking a watershed approach when dealing with small community water systems. Wouldn’t it make some sense for CAFO regulation to be done that way, also, at least in regard to water quality issues? Watersheds don’t begin and end at state and county lines.

(Sorry, I keep breaking my “no commenting” rule.)

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