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and then that rural children living within three miles of a CAFO had increased rates of childhood asthma. We documented the ease by which swine flu (H1N1) was transmitted to livestock farmers ...
Animal Welfare Institute11y
In NC, Raising Pigs Right Means Keeping Up with the Joneses
The vast majority of Duplin County pigs endure a considerably grim existence. Rain or shine they stay indoors, in cramped pens over concrete slats, packed together by the thousands within huge ...
npca.org6y
No More Hogwash in Buffalo National River
C&H’s facility was the first large concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) for swine in the state. The CAFO supplied pork to the multinational company JBS, the largest animal protein processing ...
Animal Welfare Institute4y
Farm System Reform Act
1. “Large CAFO” is defined as an operation that confines not less than (A) 700 mature dairy cows; 1,000 veal calves; 1,000 cattle other than mature dairy cows or veal calves; 2,500 weighing more than ...
Santa Clara University10d
CAFOs in Central Valley
In the Central Valley lab, one of our main missions is to make information on groundwater contamination due to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) publicly accessible. CAFOs are one the ...