https://competitivemarkets.com/rural-roads-to-security-the-curse-of-factory-farming/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://competitivemarkets.com/rural-roads-to-security-the-curse-of-factory-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-5518 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:20:54 +0000 http://competitivemarkets.com/?p=2982#comment-5518 Mike,
The menace of corporation (aka Big Ag) has progressed a lot further than you seem to think.
The legal games being used by these giant factory farm corporations are very sophisticated and manipulative. The use of legal constructs such as shell companies with no assets holding permits, CAFOs being put on small tracts of land with no ownership or lease of land to apply the manure, the use of easement contracts to control the sites, and the transfer of that manure to landowners under “easement contracts” have become the new ways to avoid corporate liability for damages and to remove themselves from regulations and lawsuits.
Take a long, hard look at the new regulations on CAFOs in Missouri that remove regulation of manure under state only no-discharge permits, the structures of those applying for permitting under these new regulations.
See facebook.com/friendsofresponsibleagriculture for the battle going on there.

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