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If you were up late, you saw that Fair Food Fight tweeted this last night: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued a statement saying that it doesn't intend to grant a new permit to stinky Excel Dairy in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. Read more...
You really have to wonder if a confined animal feedlot operation (CAFO) runs the planet. Case in point, what in the world does the owner of Excel Dairy in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, have to do before government officials smack him down?
Fair Food Fight reported on Excel Dairy back in 2008, when the dairy became the first CAFO in Minnesota to be declared a public health hazard -- so noxious and obnxious is Excel, that even the Minnesota Milk Producers Association hung them out to dry.) Read more...
A commenter on our post about In Defense of Food, the farmer group protesting Michael Pollan's appearances in Madison this week, tells us that one of the farmers offering testimony, Dr. Jim Mlsna, has quite a checkered past when it comes to clean, neighborly farming. According to our commenter, who says s/he's a farmer, too: Read more...
Here's a great perspective on what's wrong with building a CAFO (confined animal feeding operation) in your vicinity (WKBT La Crosse)
"Cows produce between 18 and 20 times the amount of waste as humans. This proposed operation is going to be 3,200 cows. If you do the math, that equates to the same amount of waste [a] city the size of 50,000 people would produce," said Ryan Call, a concerned citizen in Wesby [Wisconsin]. Read more...
