Thank you for posting this! I was going to as well. :) ~ Renada Tony Del Plato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello TC Sustainers: The following is an excellent source of information about factory farms for Tompkins & surrounding counties, as well as the nation as a whole. Food & Water Watch has done a great job in tracking legislative & real issues about food sources and the quality of food & water in our communities. Even the NYTimes (see article & link below) has taken notice of their work. best Tony Del Plato
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lauren Guite, Food & Water Watch Our online mapshows how many factory farms and [image: FWW's Factory Farm Map] factory-farmed animals are in each state and county. Even the New York Timesthinks it's a useful tool - see their editorial about the map below. You can check out the map at www.factoryfarmmap.org And make sure to use the "Tell a Friend"function to let your friends know what is near them! Thank you, Lauren Guite food(at)fwwatch.org July 31, 2007 New York Times editorial *A Factory Farm Near You* Once upon a time, only a decade or so, it wasn't hard to know where factory hog farms were because they were nearly all in North Carolina. But since those days, the practice of crowding together huge concentrations of animals ? hogs, poultry, dairy cows, beef cattle ? in the interests of supposed efficiency has spread around the country. Wherever it appears, factory farming has two notable effects. It threatens the environment, because of huge concentrations of animal manure and lax regulation. And it threatens local political control. Residents who want a say over whether and where factory farms, whose stench can be overwhelming, can be built find their voices drowned out by the industry's cash and lobbying clout. These farms are spreading so rapidly that it's been hard to get an accurate, up-to-date picture of where they all are. A research and advocacy group called Food and Water Watch has released an interactive map ? www.factoryfarmmap.org ? that allows users to track the proliferation of factory farms by state and county, number of farms, type of operation and even number of animals. The only thing that would make this map more useful ? and we hope it will be an ongoing project ? is the ability to track changes over time, showing how rapid and pervasive the growth of factory farming has been. It's important to read this map not as a static record of farm sites or a mere inventory of animals. It is really a map of overwhelming change and conflict. It raises two of the fundamental questions facing American agriculture. Do we pursue the logic of industrialism to its limits in a biological landscape? And how badly will doing so harm the landscape, the people who live in it and the democracy with which they govern themselves? To stop receiving these email updates, *click here*. -- "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org --------------------------------- Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
