Resources: INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL PRODUCTION - GENERAL INFORMATION
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How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Harms of Industrial Agriculture
Published in Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 110, Number 5, May 2002. Leo Horrigan, MHS CLF Urban Agriculture Director, Robert S. Lawrence, MD CLF Director, Polly Walker, MD, MPH CLF Associate Director
The RapSheet on Animal Factories
Sierra Club Report 2002, 20 pages
"Over the past two years, the Sierra Club has conducted an extensive review of state and federal government records of the meat industry, from the factories where the animals are produced to the industry's slaughterhouses. We examinined the records of more than 630 meat factories in 44 states."
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Homepage for the CAFO Rule
The EPA has assembled multiple materials as part of the proposed rule for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). The materials include extensive analysis of both costs and benefits of most aspects of CAFO operations including respiratory ailments, lost recreation opportunities, impacts on wildlife habitat, drinking water clean-up, and data on the costs of manure management for different size operations and adopted management practices.
Technical workpapers (TWP) available for animal agriculture study
Minnesota Planning, a state agency provides timely information about critical issues to policy-makers and the public.
Topics include: Social and Community Topics, Land Use and Conflict Resolution, Role of Government, Water Quality Issues, Air Quality and Odor Issues, Human Health Issues, Animal Health and Welfare, 2001.
Animal Agriculture: Current Issues
Congressional Research Service Issue Brief by Jerry Heykoop and Alejandro E. Segarra.
"A variety of animal agriculture issues, including low livestock prices, the impact of consolidation in the meat packing industry, trade, and the environmental impacts of large feedlots, generated interest in the 106th Congress and continue to generate interest in the 107th Congress." 2001
A Summary of the Literature Related to the Social, Environmental, Economic & Health Effects
"Nearly 100 University of Minnesota researchers, with representatives from other universities and the private sector, searched extensively for information on the 12 major topics in the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) on Animal Agriculture in Minnesota. Their findings are presented in this 1,500-page analysis." 1999.
Boss Hog: North Carolina’s Pork Revolution
8 day series of Pulitzer prize winning reports that document many aspects of factory hog farming, 1996.
Livestock & the Environment: Finding a balance
"Report of Study by the Commission of the European Communities, the World Bank and the governments of Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and The United States of America."
Public health implications of meat production and consumption
Public Health Nutrition: 8(4), 348-356. Article reviews the health, environmental and societal ramifications of industrialized meat production and nutrition of a high-meat diet. The article was written at the request of the journal’s editors. Invited Editorial - Meat Consumption and Health: Casting a Wider Risk Assessment Net
 ECONOMICS AND REAL COMMUNITIES
External Costs of Agricultural Production in the United States
This article by Associate director Mike Duffy and Erin Tegtmeier was published in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability [Vol. 2 No. 1, 2004].
What are the Costs and Economic Impacts of the Proposed Revisions?
Chapter 10 of the "National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation and Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations" prepared by the EPA. There are links from this chapter to numerous papers and reports including the economic impact analysis.
A Citizen's Guide to the Regional Economic and Environmental Effects of Large Concentrated Dairy Operations
"To help citizens and environmental groups evaluate applications for concentrated dairy operations (Bill Weida, November 20, 2000)." (Contact CLF if you would like a hard copy)
The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs
By Marlene Halverson , July 2000. Sponsored by the Funding Group on Confined Animal Feeding Operations. "The industrialization of U.S. animal agriculture has pressed on, unabated, for half a century, gradually changing the faces of American farming and rural communities. The changes wrought by industrialization are occurring in all of animal agriculture. This report focuses on the impacts of hog factories."
Rural Communities and CAFOs - New Ideas for Resolving Conflict
A training manual. Confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and nuisance law, right to farm laws, environmental regulations of CAFO?s, state activies challenging CAFO growth, local control, rural conflict, resolving disputes outside litigations and mediation of agricultural disputes." 64 pages.
Rural Health and Large-Scale Swine Operations
Written for "Conservation for Agriculture’s Future" (CORE 4) by Kendall M. Thu, Ph.D., The University of Iowa. Broad overview including social, economic, political, air and water topics.
Bringing Home the Bacon? The Myth of the Role of Corporate Hog Farming in Rural Revitalization
Based upon research sponsored by the Kerr Center and conducted by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, directed by Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora. The impact of industrial swine production on a rural Oklahoma county measured through financial, population, social and environmental indicators. Also alternative development approaches." 83 pages
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Environmental Injustice in North Carolina's Hog Industry
Steve Wing, Dana Cole, and Gary Grant
Environ Health Perspect 108:225-231, 2000.
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