This article by Tim Jamison (below) appeared in The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (in Iowa) on May 22nd, 2019.
Iowa has already reached the point where the water contamination crisis caused by massive factory farms has become so severe that dozens of county governments are finally coordinating with each other and demanding a statewide moratorium until the number of contaminated waterways in Iowa drops from 750 to fewer than 100. It’s only a matter of time until the state is forced to give them what they want, as Iowa is quickly running out of potable water. And once that statewide factory farm moratorium is in place, we in the Community Rights movement need to be ready to set up a full court press to then go to every one of those Iowa counties that made this demand, and help them to pass locally enforceable Community Rights ordinances that BAN any more CAFO’s. Period. Wisconsin’s county governments are likely to follow Iowa’s lead as the crisis there is reaching the breaking point also. For anyone who is reading this who wants to learn more, click HERE to view a sample Community Rights CAFO ban ordinance from Iowa, and other draft ordinances.
WATERLOO — Black Hawk has joined a growing list of counties and environmental groups calling for a moratorium on new “factory” livestock farms.
The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution asking for the governor and Iowa legislators to halt any new concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, from being built until the state’s water quality improves.
Supervisors in 25 more of the state’s 99 counties have passed similar resolutions, which also call on the state to revise regulations governing CAFOs and give county governments more control over their location.
I think it’s really a crisis situation,” said Supervisor Chris Schwartz. “If we’re going to get ahead of it we need to put the brakes on now until we’ve got better things in place.”
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