CAFO Update for Monday, May 12, 2008
Animal rights groups, who gained national headlines for the undercover video of a “downer cow” being mistreated at a slaughter plant are trying to follow up with chickens: Mercy for Chickens is an undercover video shot in a California egg house. So far, the response has not been there - chickens aren’t cute and fuzzy . . . .
Animal “extremist” groups, while often well intentioned, often adopt tactics and positions that undercut the effort to bring more reasoned review of the issues involved in factory agriculture: The extremists provide the AG industry with the brush to paint the entire anti-factory farm movement with.
For example, Growing IN Agriculture (GINA) is a web site funded by the Indiana Soybean Alliance and the soybean checkoff with the purpose of promoting Indiana agriculture in general, and factory farming in particular. The site has a Myths & Facts section that rebuts each and every concern you have ever had about factory farming, from the myth that factory farms are putting small family farms out of business, to the myth that factory farms are not regulated by the state:
FACT: The livestock industry is highly regulated by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of the Indiana State Chemist, and the state Board of Animal Health.
Not only that, but in other good CAFO news: Large Livestock Farms Prove Responsible is the title of the article by Tom J. Bechman in the Indiana Prairie Farmer about Maxwell Foods effort to contain a manure spill into Martindale Creek in Randolph County. Martindale Creek is on IDEM’s current list of impaired waterways for E. Coli (2006 list) as well as the proposed 2008 list (Microsoft Excel file: Draft 2008 Integrated Report: Categories 4 and 5 (Proposed) [XLS]).
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