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ICARE Large CAFO Audit Presentation to House Ag: Audio, Slides, & Text 15 Mar 2011 | 05:05 pm
Below is a recording of ICARE’s presentation of our statistical audit of ISDA’s Large CAFO records to the Idaho legislature’s House Agriculture Committee. The audit shows clearly that Large CAFO opera...
Tell FDA: tainted eggs should be destroyed, not hidden in processed foods 4 Sep 2010 | 04:53 am
Idaho dodged a bullet during the recent half-a-billion egg recall: Jack DeCoster’s factory-farmed eggs were nowhere to be found in our state’s grocery stores. However, that may change very soon– FDA i...
Idaho’s Dairy & Beef CAFO Problem 2 Sep 2010 | 09:04 am
CAFOs garner a lot of attention due to animal welfare and food safety concerns (and they should); the human impact, however, is all too often overlooked. Today’s Boise Weekly features a story that goe...
CAFO News Briefs: Salmonella, E-coli and CAFO-poisoned lakes 2 Sep 2010 | 08:33 am
The past few weeks have not been kind to the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) industry. Let’s see, there was the recall of nearly half a billion eggs produced at a single Iowa mega-CAFO, ...
Jerome County P&Z Rubber-Stamps C Bar M CAFO Expansion 1 Sep 2010 | 06:21 am
In spite of objections from at least 6 neighboring families over health concerns, on August 30th 2010 the Jerome County P&Z approved C Bar M’s (aka Ted Miller Dairy’s) application to nearly double its...
Gem County Idaho favors CAFO over citizens rights 18 Aug 2010 | 12:53 pm
Gem County Commissioners, Prosecutor and the Development Services Department refuse responsibility for the protection of the citizen’s public health and safety. 1 – The commissioners failed to act an...
EPA fines Happy Valley Dairy CAFO under Clean Water Act 5 Aug 2010 | 06:17 am
Yesterday’s Idaho Statesman reported that EPA has reached a settlement with Happy Valley Dairy (a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in Nampa) over several Clean Water Act Violations. Accor...
Help bring competition back to the meat industry 4 Aug 2010 | 08:51 am
The folks at Food & Water Watch will be road-tripping through the Midwest this summer, meeting with farmers, citizens and local officials about why our food system is broken and how to fix it. Cows g...
Picturing America’s Diet 29 Jul 2010 | 07:13 am
Compare that to what the folks at Harvard’s School of Public Health’s “Healthy Eating Pyramid”:
California’s prop 2 gets a much-needed patch 8 Jul 2010 | 07:41 am
Yesterday, California’s G0vernor signed into law a much-needed counterpart to the state’s animal welfare standards for commercial egg growers (2008’s proposition 2). Proposition 2 required that commer...
