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Factory Farms
Government Study Questions
News and resources to inspire concerned citizens to work together in Pending EPA Rules
building a healthier, stronger society that works for all. A new
study by
Slow Food the Gov-
Eat Well at Home and on the Road
ernment
EatWellGuide.org’s list of thousands of small-scale Ac-
farms, organic restaurants and other ‘green food’ outlets throughout the United count-
States and Canada continues to grow, signaling America’s shift in consciousness. ability
Simply key in a zip code or city to turn up stores, restaurants and caterers, even Office
personal chefs, who do it right. Such new digital tools “allow us to bypass the (GAO) confirms the dangerous levels
big advertisers, the mega-chains, the junk peddlers, and instead find all the other of airborne and waterborne pollutants
people growing, processing, cooking and eating actual, delicious food,” says Bill emanating from factory farms, known
McKibben, author of Cultivating the Web. as Concentrated Animal Feeding Op-
EatWellGuide.org’s latest feature even helps us find local, sustainable, organic erations (CAFOs). Researchers found
food wherever we travel, to create a top-notch eating itinerary. “A little bit of that some of these operations annually
research in advance of an adventure can offer an inquisitive eater a range of deli- produce more raw waste than is gener-
cious memories that truly taste of a place,” comments Allison Radecki, a graduate ated by residents of major U.S. cities.
of Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences. Compounding the problem, the
number of CAFOs has multiplied over
For recommendations and recipes, also visit The Green Fork project,
the past 20 years, from 3,600 in 1982 to
at
Blog.EatWellGuide.org.
nearly 12,000 by 2002. The number of
10 More Years
animals raised on large farms simultane-
ously climbed from 257 million to 890
Victory Protects Arctic Breeding Ground
million.
Grassroots and courtroom pressures by several environmental groups have finally
Twenty-seven other studies directly
convinced the Bush administration to postpone oil and gas leasing in most of the
or indirectly link pollution from CAFOs
Teshekpuk Lake area of Alaska’s Western Arctic Reserve for a decade. More than
with impacts on public health or the
200,000 citizen comments joined warnings from biologists and wildlife manag-
environment, especially in communities
ers calling for preservation of this pristine breeding ground for migratory birds and
near these facilities. The GAO study
caribou. The next push will be for legislation to permanently protect this world-
questions the Environmental Protec-
class wildlife habitat.
tion Agency’s proposed rule to exempt
“This long-awaited reversal is a milestone in our campaign to block Big Oil
CAFOs from reporting certain toxic gas
from destroying one of the most important tundra wetland systems on the planet,”
emissions above 100 pounds a day.
says Chuck Clusen, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Alaska
Project. The group reports that the oil industry already has drilling rights to 87
Source: News from Congress media
percent of the northeastern portion of the reserve.
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