Comments on: What is a CAFO, and why should you care?

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by: abby007

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:15:59 +0000

Can CAFO expansion is danger to our environment.The posting above in suggestion of damage caused by feeding operations.The practice of raising farm animals in confinement at high stocking density, sometimes used more generally to describe operating a farm as a factory.In our region farmer has been planning to adopt this.Plz guide me so that further i can suggest them about its good and bad points.
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by: Tom

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:51:48 +0000

We had a CAFO expansion in Madison County. I’m all for the farmers making a living. But I’m against corporate farms coming in and damaging our environment.
I attended the hearing for their expansion. One BZA member said that he didn’t think it would damage any wells. At this point of time, it was a known fact that it had damaged a well. These farmers acted like it was a joke.
When asked about total water usage, the number that they gave averaged out to only one ounce of water a day per cow (less than 0.1% of what it should have been). The commissioners are always asking this question and should have known that it was bogus information. When I went to address some of this information to one of the commissioners, she immediately and rudely cut me off.
At least two people emailed Indiana’s Lt. Governor and she came to Madison County (just to drive past the people who were worried about their wells and property value). She instead went to the CAFO’s ground breaking ceremony.
The Governor, Lt. Governor and commissioners need to ask themselves a question. Which is: “Would they have done this if a CAFO was planted in their back yard?”
Obviously the support people who could care less about our environment, people who give bogus information.
STICK A CAFO IN THE GOVERNOR’S YARD!

by: Grant County Resident

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:38:18 +0000

I am a 25 year old resident in Grant County, Indiana. Right now we have a CAFO that has gotten permission to come to our area. Luckily 4 resident couples are going to appeal that decision in December. I have an almost 3 year old child who I certainly do not want to grow up in this CRAP (literally) and all the problems that come along with it. My husband and I have decided that if the CAFO comes to grant county we are OUTTA HERE! and a lot of our family will go will us. The grant county area is already a dying county and here they are running out more people .These CAFO’s arent bringing JOBS that we need, they are bring PROBLEMS that we DONT need!
Soooo tired of these stupid government officials making pathetic and ignorant decisions.
READY FOR A NEW GOVERNOR!

by: Ryan Dvorak

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:05:28 +0000

I would suggest you do a number of things: Talk with your local officials about adopting a county ordinance regarding CAFOs; get local community members together to discuss the issue; take your collective concerns to the press; definitely contact your State Representative and State Senator about the numerous CAFO bills pending in the Legislature.

We are working on several options legislatively, including one bill that we will be voting on in the Environmental Affairs Committee this week to require all local approvals are met before a CAFO can be constructed.

It is important that concerned citizens such as yourself get your elected officials to advocate on your (and all of your neighbors’) behalf. Good luck!

by: Annette Holdeman

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:22:15 +0000

We are property owners near the small town of Boswell, Indiana. Yesterday the Lafayette Journal & Courier reported, broke the story to many of us, about 2 CAFO’s near the town and 2 more to the south 4- 5 miles. We are a small town with basically not to much going for it, our grocery store closed down a few years ago. We have a restaurant, a bank, post office and 2 gas stations and that is about it these days. I have been aware of the terribly negative imact of CAFO’s for quite a while now, so when I read the J&C article, my heart sank. What can we do. I found the IDEM pdf file showing that the NPDS Applicaton was made on behalf of North Fork Farms, LLC in December 2006! What can we do to help convince people of all the negatives to this venture? Can you help anyone? The CAFO’s seem to have their advocates Mike Veenhuizen, Phd (Purdue), Owner & President of Livestock Engineering Solution (he’s an renowned expert in manure handling). Who can we find to advocate for us??? Many Thanks in advance for your advise and thoughts.

by: Ryan Dvorak

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:27:22 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I agree with your assessments of the change in nusiance law in 2005. I voted against the bill at the time, and I suspect not everyone who supported it understood the true impact of the change.

But even if that legislation were repealed, I doubt nusiance suits would always best answer to CAFO problems. They could be one tool to use, but they can be difficult to try, and move the enforcement burden (and costs) from the state to the citizens.

A real, long-term, regulatory approach to industrial-scale livestock operations probably needs to start with the state to have a meaningful impact.

by: Thomas Kemp

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:52:32 +0000

Thanks for giving coverage to these measures. This is not the first year there have been calls in the legislature to stop and consider factory farming before the state goes “whole hog.” I hope it gets farther this time.

I must say that Mr. Williams’ comment is critical: how can the legislature put into law that a change from a corn field to an 8,000 hog industrial operation is not a change in use?

The denial of owners’ rights to complain about the noxious activities of their neighbors is a taking of valuable property rights, and it will result in lower property values across this state.

by: Dave Williams

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:30:26 +0000

A good starting point would be to roll back the legislation that makes it impossible for neighbors to file a nuisance lawsuit against a CAFO operator. The ag apologists will claim that this legislation protects the operators from the “city people” who move into the country and are offended by the odor, noises, etc. associated with farming. The people who are affected by the CAFO operations are typically people who have lived in a rural setting their entire lives, many of them are farmers themselves. Now, they have no legal recourse if a CAFO makes it impossible to enjoy thier yards or leave their windows open during the summer months. This needs to change.