{"id":2618,"date":"2015-02-10T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T12:39:17","slug":"drinking-cow-poo-or-not-cleaning-up-after-big-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/drinking-cow-poo-or-not-cleaning-up-after-big-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking cow poo! Or not? Cleaning Up after Big Ag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the essay of the week from OCA.\u00a0 It’s short and sweet and to the point.\u00a0 The point is not so sweet – big food producers are breaking laws, poisoning consumers and getting away with it because of corrupted legislation and process …<\/p>\n

Cleaning Up after Big Ag<\/h5>\n
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A \u201cCow Palace\u201d in Washington State that threatens public health with its acres of untreated animal waste. A city in Iowa spending $1 million a year to keep illness-causing nitrates from farm runoff out of public drinking water.<\/p>\n

And who can forget the plight of Toledo, Ohio, residents whose water last summer was so contaminated<\/a> by farm runoff that they couldn\u2019t even bathe in it, much less drink it?<\/p>\n

For decades, America\u2019s chemical-intensive, industrial farming operations have spewed nitrates and other toxic chemicals, animal waste, ammonia, antibiotics, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane gases into public air, waterways and communities.<\/p>\n

How do they get away with it? Largely because lobbyists have seen to it that Big Ag is exempt from many of the rules and regulations that other industries, and even municipalities, are required to follow under laws such as the Clean Air Act (comments on exemptions here<\/a>), the Clean Water Act (comments on exemptions here<\/a>) and the Resource and Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concerned about the growing threat to public health, and tired of picking up the tab for cleaning up the mess, citizens and local and state governments are turning to the courts for help.<\/p>\n

In some cases, they\u2019re winning. But the real win will come when the conversation turns from mitigating pollution, to preventing<\/em> it, by transitioning to pesticide-free, chemical-free, non-GMO organic regenerative agriculture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the essay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tell EPA: Please Protect U.S. Waters from Factory Farm Pollution!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the essay of the week from OCA.\u00a0 It’s short and sweet and to the point.\u00a0 The point is not so sweet – big food producers are breaking laws, poisoning consumers and getting away with it because of corrupted legislation and process … Cleaning Up after Big Ag A \u201cCow Palace\u201d in Washington State that …
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