--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hog Confinements by Vedic City > > IMPORTANT PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR LISTS: > > A permit is being issued for a Matrix ( large ) Hog confinement on the > farm neighboring Mother Divine in Vedic City. Others are forthcoming > for the borders of Vedic City and Jefferson County. Farms have been > purchased for this specific reason. The most important thing at this > time is that we show up and express concern. Now is the final hour - > or our environment will be inundated with hog sewage and toxic gasses. > We have hired lobbyists, written legislation to protect Vedic city by > 2 miles, but people have not shown up to express their objections. > > Please come to this meeting Friday, 3-4 at the FF Public Library. > Another email will be sent to you regarding emailing senators and > legislators as we try to get our protection bill through which > involves the entire state of Iowa. > > Thank you, > David Sands <dsandsmd @ msn.com> >
************* The TMO should just buy up the land around the MD and Pundit sites in VC -- land is only about a thousand an acre in Iowa, so it shouldn't cost more than several million -- even if they had to pay a premium to encourage hog lotters to build elsewhere -- to buy a couple miles of buffer around the properties (lots probably stink for what, 5 miles (?), but a couple miles would certainly mitigate a lot of excrement-flavored air), and with all the hotels sold recently by the TMO, the money is available. The hog industry is just too powerful in Iowa, and the only people who really care about the issue are the unfortunate folks who live out in the twigs where the lots are built.