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Hidden Food Costs: Confined Animal Operations Cost Taxpayers Billions
Target: Secretary of Agriculture, USDASponsored by: Union of Concerned Scientists
Do you know the true cost of your dinner?
Currently, more than 50 percent of the meat, milk, and eggs we eat in this country are produced in huge animal production facilities called CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations). Unfortunately, their operations harm the environment, our health, and the communities in which they are located.
The true cost of meat and milk produced in massive CAFOs includes billions in unaccounted-for taxpayer dollars that pay for the economic, health, and environmental problems created by these facilities.
But there are viable alternatives. More and more meat and dairy farmers are successfully shifting to practical, modern systems that work with nature instead of against it. These alternatives produce the quantity of food we need while safeguarding our health and protecting the foundations of our food supply-like healthy soil and fresh water. Please sign our petition to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), asking him to end policies that give an unfair advantage to the polluting CAFO industry and to support modern alternatives instead.
If you polute the food or the soil they you polute who ever eats it. There are people who try to keep food healty but where there is Good there is Bad! Sometimes I think it would be better to regress back to the USA in at the time when people raised there own meat and gardens and hunted for some wild animals to eat!
The CAFOs are unhealthy, inhumain, and a major source of pollution in the areas they are located. I strongly support the move away from these atrocious practices to a modern, alternitive farming method.
Please help stop this practice. This is most horrible for the animals. It seems unfair to me to give a break to businesses that treat animals in a less than humane way and cost the taxpayers extra to boot. Thank you, Deborra Hanson
Small and medium-sized operations also have advantage of encouraging the family farm and local free enterprise. Smaller operations have the potential for more humane treatment of the animals.
I don't feel that we the consumer should be picking up the tab that is needed for the c onfining of animals Enforcing antitrust laws to prevent large meat processors from dominating and shutting out the smaller producers would help this situation
USDA, PLEASE HELP ALL OF US....
Please end this way. Protect the people and the animals. CAFOs stop the greed, there is a better way for all of us. (Humans and helpless animals) Rose Hunter
Dear USDA, Factory Farming shouldn't be allowed in the first place! Neither should stem cell research..but that's a whole new controversy.The enviorment doesn't want to absorb that crap you put out! What's wrong with you @#$%&*?!