Factory Farm Fallacy

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ENVIRONMENT

Factory Farm Fallacy

By now, it is a familiar ritual, acted out with depressing regularity. First,

the Bush administration announces its newest eco-policy, touting it as a

breakthrough in protecting the environment and/or the health of the American

people. Then, environmentalists respond, punching holes in the official rhetoric

and charging that the latest initiative is transparently pro-industry and a

significant rollback of established standards.

So it goes with the administration's changes to the rules regulating huge

livestock operations, which a coalition of environmental groups is now

challenging in federal court. As Environment News Service's J.R. Pegg reports,

Washington claims the changes will help prevent waste produced by massive

factory farms -- the largest of which can hold more than a million animals --

from seeping into nearby water supplies. In reality, conservationists say, the

modified law violates the Clean Water Act, giving the livestock industry a free

hand to dispose of animal waste however it sees fit.

" Prior to the Bush administration's rule, Rogers explained, these large factory

farms, known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), were not

permitted to discharge any animal waste pollution. But under the

administration's rule they are 'now expressly permitted to discharge waste into

the environment,' Rogers said, and can do so based on permits that they are

allowed to write themselves, without any government or public oversight.

'Polluters can't be trusted to write their own permits,' said NRDC attorney

Melanie Shepherdson. 'It is like asking high school kids to write their own

tests. They will make it too easy to comply and they will not protect public

health.' "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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