Another reason we need to relocalize the food supply

Check out the size of the hypersized factory "pharms" discussed in this waste management plan. In these "pharms," animals are packed together like sardines -- giant disease-carrying, million-gallon waste producing sardines, in plants that are a vision of hell on earth, a blight on the land and a scourge to all the real farmers.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) & Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) are proposing to renew Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit #01. This permit regulates disposal of manure, litter, and process wastes to prevent contamination of groundwater and surface waters from approximately 580 CAFOs. CAFOs include, but are not limited to, dairies and poultry and beef operations. Public notice and renewal documents will be available at ODA's website later today: http://oregon.gov/oda/nrd or call ODA at 503-986-4699.

This is a new proposal. Comments are due by 5 p.m., Monday, March 16, 2009. Comments on the proposal announced by ODA and DEQ on September 11, 2008 will not be considered and must be resubmitted.

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