INDUSTRIALIZED DAIRIES ARE ALSO CALLED CAFOS. WHY? CAFO is an EPA acronym for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, otherwise known as a Factory Farm. These large-scale, industrial operations produce prodigious amounts of manure.... Click HERE for more >> 1-16-04  Here's a flash presentation called "The Meatrix" that will teach you a little about Factory Farms (make sure your speakers are on!): Click Here. 3-7-04   CCCW's Ads can give you a little insight into CAFO's and how they impact communities. Click Here.

HOT LINKS   TALK ABOUT A CHEESY DEAL: Glanbia/DFA's Southwest Cheese Plant: Economic Development? For Whom? Click Here. FANTASY VS. REALITY A Photo Essay About CAFO Dairies in New Mexico Click Here. GOT MUCK? KOB-TV Albuquerque reports that home video recordings, taken about 2 weeks ago (March 2004), show hundreds of dead cows and medical waste piled in huge holes at two dairies (County Line Dairy and D.B. Dairy) in the Lake Arthur area, just south of Roswell, New Mexico. A neighbor of one of the dairies told the TV station that "there was a pit, probably 20 feet wide, 15 to 20 feet deep and 100 feet long that they were throwing in medical waste, carcasses from cattle and syringes." Another neighbor said that "it shows that they don’t have a lot of concern for the people living around them. I want to know what’s killing that many cows.” Click here for the KOB-TV story and to view some of the home video footage.

WHAT ARE THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CAFOS? CAFOs "sell" themselves primarily in poor, rural areas, promising the boon of "Economic Development"--what is the REAL story? Click HERE for more >> 1-17-04   UPDATE: Info on Local Farm Subsidies Through 2002.

WHAT ARE THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF CAFOS? CAFOs pose a serious threat to public health. They pollute the land, the water, and even the air you breathe. They are biological time bombs, harboring serious health threats like tuberculosis, e. coli, and now, Mad Cow.... Click HERE for more >> 3-12-04   The American Public Health Association (APHA) has issued a resolution urging federal, state, and local government health agencies to impose a precautionary MORATORIUM on all new Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) - also known as factory farms - and to initiate and support further research on the health impacts of air and water pollution from such operations. Negative economic effects on rural communities; health problems associated with air pollution and contaminated drinking water from manure runoff; increasing antibiotics resistance caused by the routine use of antibiotics in farm animals; and serious respiratory problems found among CAFO workers and among neighboring residents are identified as the main reasons for calling for the moratorium.Click Here to read the MORATORIUM RESOLUTION. 1-24-04  An Idaho Dairy is the First in the Nation to Report its Toxic Emissions--Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide 12/25/03:    How Now, Mad Cow?    America's first reported case of Mad Cow disease found in an INDUSTRIAL CAFO DAIRY cow in Washington State. June 2003:   Bovine Tuberculosis has been found in two dairy herds in Roosevelt County, New Mexico.   Click Here to learn how this will affect New Mexico's cattle industry and Click Here to learn more about Bovine Tuberculosis. 2-5-04  Yet Another CAFO Human Health Threat Uncovered: Airborne e coli contamination reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), November 2003.

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