Our state, with it's new governor is being "friendly" to livestock producing expansion. These CAFO's are under debate. There is a hearing scheduled for next Wed evening, 18th at the Fairgrounds in Warsaw, IN.
They sent cards to area farmers urging them to come defend the family farm's right to farm.
Is a building with tens of thousands of animals that never see the light of day until slaughtered, cared for by unrelated employees, with waste that has no sewage treatment plant, highly concentrated and spread on land directly above the aquifers where the midwest largely gets its water supply, --a family farm?
Are family farms owned and operated by family members? Or, are family farms just owned by the family with workers receiving the lowest pay around actually doing the work in these buildings with no clue on the outside what is going on in the inside- except for the odor?
Our state is on the verge of going the route of North Carolina and counties in Oklahoma.
Advise.
2006-10-15 03:39:12 · 3 answers · asked by Dee M 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I live in Kansas, and I will tell you that is a good question.
Family farms are dying, and it is terrible. The freedom to farm act is important to the survival of the family farm. Family farms represent independence, quality food, and survival of rural America. Family farms aren't warehoused slaughter houses, unlike corporate farms.
Corporate farms are starting to take control, and collecting billions in gov't subsidies, that was intended to keep family farms growing.
The tide needs to be reversed. Corporate farms are antienviroment, destroying small communites, and are robbing the USDA blind.
2006-10-15 03:45:31 · answer #1 · answered by Villain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it quite is because of the fact the final anethstesia makes the animals nauseous. If the animal vomits mutually as under anethstesia, there's a severe probability it ought to aspirate and die, or develope pnuemonia.
2016-11-23 12:53:38 · answer #2 · answered by rubinstein 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's great.
Only nutcakes and freaks are against it.
Go visit one of the farms. The animals get great care. Fed great.
That's what makes our meat so good.
YOUR STATE IS GETTING SMART.
2006-10-15 03:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋