Via Daily Kos: "Help fight Factory Farms" -please K& R DUers.

[nam78_two]

This is an important diary (if the author posts here and this is a repeat post apologies-I haven't seen anything on it).

Those of you who read the Rolling Stone article on pig farming will have some familiarity with the issue.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/18/164044/06


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Please Help Fight Factory Farms!
by OrangeClouds115
Mon Dec 18, 2006 at 02:12:01 PM PST

I don't usually request this, but due to the urgency of this initiative, can you please recommend this diary if you find the cause worthy? Thanks!

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A Little Background
By chance, I've spoken to an Iowa farmer in the past year about factory farms' impact on clean water in his state. He said that the factory farms often dump manure on frozen fields and they run into the water supply.

This is illegal, but the Department of Natural Resources lacks the ability to enforce the laws. Of course, under the Bush Crime Family, that is intentional. If you can't get rid of regulations entirely, just starve them of cash and ruin their ability to enforce laws.

No doubt this situation is NOT unique to Iowa. However, EIP is focusing on Iowa and the farmer I happened to speak to a few months ago was also from Iowa. Strange coincidence I suppose. But if you read the excellent pig shit diary by draftchrisheinz, you know that the same sort of thing happens all over, from sea to shining sea.

Lale, friend (and Kossack) put me in touch with EIP earlier this week. Lale is one of my heroes - a regular person who got involved in environmental issues locally and started really kicking butt to keep her local water supply clean.

After chatting some with a woman from EIP, I could see why Lale felt they were a worthy cause.


That and the associated diaries are good ones. This is a worthwhile thing to focus on versus the circular debates over vegetarian vs. non etc. etc. , imo at least :). And c'mon YOU are Time's person of the year right-YOU can make a difference ;)!

[calimary]

1. Good for you for putting this out there.

People need to know this.

K&R

[Jcrowley]

2. Illustrative of so much

The commodification of life.



Warning! These are actual photographs and videos documenting the abuse found in "food animal" factories, stockyards, and slaughterhouses. Many people will find them unsettling.

http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery.htm

Factory farming is an attitude that regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit.

In animal agriculture, this attitude has led to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and animal and human health risks.

http://www.factoryfarming.com/

[Higans]

8. Add www.peta.org

www.peta.org

[Cha]

3. Thank you and Recommended!

The only thing is you have "diaries" down when I think you mean "dairies", no?

Great point about us making a difference!

[nam78_two]

4. Thanks a lot zidzi

:toast:

Well, "OrangeCloud" linked to another diary:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/18/121610/67

So thats the other one...

[silverojo]

5. K&R'ed at your request! n/t

[nam78_two]

6. Thanks a lot!

:toast:

[Sapphire Blue]

7. K&R; PLEASE TAKE ACTION - Ask your rep to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act in 2007 @

... http://www.ilovemountains.org/action/write_your_rep /


The above link is from a thread that I posted last month; please take the time to read it...

STOPPING MTR: A national priority in the 110th US Congress: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2764297

[OneBlueSky]

9. factory farming should be banned outright, and new policies put in place . . .

to encourage small family farms that sell their stuff locally . . . it will take time, of course, and we'll have to pay more for meat and produce . . . but reducing meat consumption would be a good thing, since it takes so much energy and water to produce a pound of beef or pork . . . meat would -- and should -- become something for special occasions, not an everyday diet staple . . . we can get our protein elsewhere, a lot cheaper and a lot healthier . . .

disclaimer: I'm not a vegetarian -- yet . . . but I have virtually eliminated beef from my diet, and I'm working on pork . . . I mostly eat fish and fowl, and even those will be reduced over time because chickens are also raised inhumanely, and the oceans are being overfished to the point of species extinctions . . .

[Jcrowley]

10. K & R n/t

[Catchawave]

11. This is a very important progressive issue !

Industrialized farming has driven family farmers out of business, ruins the environment, unhealthy for human consumption and is the cruelest form of animal abuse.

If you must eat meat, please go organic (no hormones and antibiotics)for your own safety, as well as support your local farmer/farmer's market if possible. The price may be a little higher, but you don't need that much meat in your diet.

This should be the model for the future:

http://www.nimanranch.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/NimanRanch-NimanRanchStore-Site

[nam78_two]

12. kick.nt

[femrap]

13. Corporations are killing us....

If corporations insist on personhood, then it's time they start to die off.

[Danger Mouse]

14. K+R

big time. I read the article. It's horrid.
I will never eat any pork products again unless I KNOW FOR SURE it's from a small (humanely run) farm.
I think I will be phasing out other meats as well in the weeks to come...back to vegetarianism for me =D
:kick:
kick, donkey, kick!

[nam78_two]

15. :)

:thumbsup:

[ftr23532]

16. This looks like a job for a...

...:kick:

[ismnotwasm]

17. Kick

What's that old saying about hotdogs? If people knew what was in them they probably wouldn't eat them? The more information we can get out about factory farms the better.

This is an old fight, and I'm glad it's getting more press.

As sad as it is, the E-coli horrors have perhaps helped raise a bit of awareness.