These are four investigative articles from a series, concerning factory farms. By Ron Seely, published in the Wisconsin State Journal


Factory Farms, Managing Manure 1 Factory Farms, Managing Manure 2 Factory Farms, Managing Manure 3 Factory Farms, Dairy Power The Factory Next Door 1 The Factory Next Door 2 The Factory Next Door 3

"While CAFOs clearly are profitable, they 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.