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Six Recommendations for CAFOs PDF Print E-mail
Written by Heather McKee   
Friday, 28 November 2008

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health were contracted through a grant from Pew Charitable Trusts to “recommend solutions to the problems created by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in four primary areas: public health, the environment, animal welfare, and rural communities.”

 

After conducting extensive interviews and literature reviews, researchers made 6 main recommendations regarding CAFOs:

 

  • Phase out & ban the nontherapeutic use of antimicrobials
  • Improve disease monitoring and tracking
  • Improve regulations to address siting and waste disposal of CAFOs
  • Phase out intensive confinement (California just did)
  • Increase competition in the livestock market – enforce antitrust laws
  • Improve research in animal agriculture – currently mainly funded by industry

 

Researchers also reported that smaller farm operations return an average of 95% of their earnings to their communities, but industrial operations return only 20%. The Commission also reported that poverty does not decrease around industrial farms – in fact, food stamp use rises in some of those areas.

 

Externalities, from environmental degradation to community disruption, have been shrugged off by CAFOs for too long. The clear points of action recommended by the Johns Hopkins researchers provide legislators with a neat “to-do” list.

 

Via Des Moines Register

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