Group forms to protest hog farm plan (MO)

[struggle4progress]

Posted on Sat, Aug. 12, 2006

Associated Press

MORA, Mo. - A proposal to build a large Cargill farm operation southwest of Mora is pitting neighbor against neighbor.

Travis and Sarah Meade, who live on 145 acres near the Benton County line, are planning a 2,490-head, wean-to-finish hog operation. That is 10 hogs shy of needing a Department of Natural Resource permit ...

Anderson said such a large hog operation would reduce the value of his property. He also said it would jeopardize Sedalia's water supply because the Meades' land is within the city's watershed and near Cheese Creek, a tributary of Spring Fork Lake ...

"Anyone who has every been around one of these large-scale hog operations knows the smell is atrocious, and it spreads over several miles," Kneibert said ...

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15260546.htm

[msongs]

1. meat is murder - damn the neighbors anyway

just because cargill loves dead pigs and the stench of the live ones does not give them permission to ruin the quality of life for anybody in a 10 mile radius. then again, cargill doesnt need permission does it?

BTW if they are running a breeding operation, should be more than 2499 limit at least once in a while to force a permit.

Msongs
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[struggle4progress]

2. I don't know the details of Missouri law. In N Carolina, at one time,

the local health departments had a say about this sort of thing -- but this authority was stripped away in the early 90s, and the legislator behind the change promptly retired from the General Assembly to make a forture in industrial scale hog raising. It's also my impression that the large corporations usually use subcontracting arrangements, to shove the risk and liability issues onto somebody else.