Comments on: Livestock pollution turns off young Iowans http://ruralpopulist.org/2008/01/13/livestock-pollution-turns-off-young-iowans/ Rural News and Views Mon, 21 May 2012 16:57:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Yvonne http://ruralpopulist.org/2008/01/13/livestock-pollution-turns-off-young-iowans/#comment-32590 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:57:27 +0000 http://ruralpopulist.org/2008/01/13/livestock-pollution-turns-off-young-iowans/#comment-32590 When is this madness going to stop? We need to start electing politicians who will put a limit on these factory farms. They are ruining our small family farms, not to mention our quality of life. We need to put a moratorium on these gigantic hog confinements. Iowa is becoming the stinkhole of the nation. When will it stop? No other states have as many hogs as Iowa does and when does it end? Do these giant corporations just want to fill our entire state with hog shit? And pollute our water, soil and air, so that the rest of the nation can buy crappy tasting, antibiotic and hormone-filled pork? Not to mention the poor animals who spend their entire lives in cages, without ever seeing grass. We need to start paying attention and talking to our friends and neighbors about this. When is this madness going to stop? We need to start electing politicians who will put a limit on these factory farms. They are ruining our small family farms, not to mention our quality of life.

We need to put a moratorium on these gigantic hog confinements. Iowa is becoming the stinkhole of the nation. When will it stop?

No other states have as many hogs as Iowa does and when does it end? Do these giant corporations just want to fill our entire state with hog shit? And pollute our water, soil and air, so that the rest of the nation can buy crappy tasting, antibiotic and hormone-filled pork? Not to mention the poor animals who spend their entire lives in cages, without ever seeing grass.

We need to start paying attention and talking to our friends and neighbors about this.

]]> by: matt http://ruralpopulist.org/2008/01/13/livestock-pollution-turns-off-young-iowans/#comment-32539 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:31:52 +0000 http://ruralpopulist.org/2008/01/13/livestock-pollution-turns-off-young-iowans/#comment-32539 Wisconsin and Illinois are fighting similar problems, but I'm starting to wonder if it's entirely the state government's problem? I grew up in a small farm town in rural Wisconsin, moved to Chicago, and now I'm back in a small town with my family. The small town we live in now is very different than the one I grew up in 20 years ago. It's like they've given up. There doesn't seem to be any ambition in the rural communities to make something for themselves. Rural communities are pushing people away because they are so resentful of what has happened to their communities do to the changing culture and global economics of the past 30 years. It seems so common now in rural communities the disdain, and the distrust for the "outsiders" moving in. The mentality is these people are going to try and change the community, and the locals so desperately are trying to hold onto the glory of their past. Things change, life changes, and many more of these communities need to find ways to adapt to today, or someone else is going to choose their destiny for them. This is now becoming the case in our small town. A company is planning on building a mega-dairy just outside town, similar to the feed lots you speak, and everyone is in a rage. My opinion is, they asked for it by not trying to attract other businesses all these years. http://www.metropoliszero.com/?p=32 Wisconsin and Illinois are fighting similar problems, but I’m starting to wonder if it’s entirely the state government’s problem? I grew up in a small farm town in rural Wisconsin, moved to Chicago, and now I’m back in a small town with my family. The small town we live in now is very different than the one I grew up in 20 years ago. It’s like they’ve given up. There doesn’t seem to be any ambition in the rural communities to make something for themselves. Rural communities are pushing people away because they are so resentful of what has happened to their communities do to the changing culture and global economics of the past 30 years. It seems so common now in rural communities the disdain, and the distrust for the “outsiders” moving in. The mentality is these people are going to try and change the community, and the locals so desperately are trying to hold onto the glory of their past. Things change, life changes, and many more of these communities need to find ways to adapt to today, or someone else is going to choose their destiny for them. This is now becoming the case in our small town. A company is planning on building a mega-dairy just outside town, similar to the feed lots you speak, and everyone is in a rage. My opinion is, they asked for it by not trying to attract other businesses all these years. http://www.metropoliszero.com/?p=32

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