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Crawford Stewardship Project works to protect the environment of Crawford County from threats such as those posed by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and to promote sustainable land use, local control of natural resources, and environmental justice. Crawford Stewardship Project is a nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible. Support CSP Send a check to: Crawford Stewardship Project P.O. Box 284 Gays Mills, WI 54631 csp.county@gmail.com |
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Crawford Stewardship Project is grateful for the generous support of the Wisconsin Community Fund. Thank you to Organic Valley for their generous contribution to our silent auction in February 2013.  
"CAFOs are only profitable because so much of the cost and damage is externalized onto the environment, neighbors and wildlife. The monitoring, supervision, clean-up, restitution, fines are not happening, thus the true cost of CAFOs never find the way onto the balance books." Talking point from the CAFO Conference.
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Research and Articles
The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production recommends solutions to the problems created by concentrated animal feeding operations in four primary areas: public health, the environment, animal welfare, and rural communities. Established through a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Download report... Factory Farms - Articles from Family Farm Defenders Taxpayer Subsidized Manure Digesters Stimulate Factory Farm Pollution by John Kinsman, Family Farm Defenders 3/14/10 Local letter from Gene Pulera (Richmond Township, Walworth County) with a proposal made to the DNR to ban center pivot liquid manure "irrigation" systems until the health issues are explored Proposal re Public Health and the Use of Spray Irrigation for Liquid Manure Disposal (including Center Pivots) Guide to Confronting a Factory Farm from the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project www.srap.org Environmental Integrity Project report on National Air Emissions Monitoring Study data and the potential worker and public health effects of factory farm air emissions. www.environmentalintegrity.org/03_09_2011.php News release and summary of report here. 3 Lies Big Food Wants You to Believe and the Truth Behind Factory-'Farmed' Meat - An excellent summary of this book of photos and essays- CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories, edited by Daniel Imhoff. On Alternet.org Critics of factory farms push state agriculture department to reconsider rules by Ron Seely, Wisconsin State Journal 10/26/10 Investigative series on Factory Farms by Ron Seely, Wisconsin State Journal Citizens’ Memorandum Confronts Wisconsin’s Factory Farm Industry, by Steve Furay, Common Breath 4/22/10 Folks can spout off about stinky issues by Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune 2/10/20 Confronting the Environmental Irresponsibility of the Dairy Industry by Steve Furay in Common Breath Media common-breath.com on the action at the Dairy Business Associations's Annual Meeting 12/1/09 The Fight Against Factory Farms by Roger Bybee in the The Isthmus, Madison WI 8/14/09 Board members get earful from those opposing CAFOs 5/14/09 article by Jan Shepel in Wisconsin State Farmer Water Quality Monitoring - A Citizen's Approach by Steve Furay in Common Breath Media 7/14/10 |
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