ORGANIZATIONS

Illinois Citizens for Clean Air & Water - Visit the ICCAW website for links to new reports from around the state and other resources.

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project - Visit their website for news, updates, and resources to help oppose new projects or monitor existing factory farms.

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ARTICLES

Fulton County Projects

• April 2017
  • Fulton County Residents Speak Out On Hog Farm\ Proposals
  • Citizens Continue to Oppose Proposed CAFOs
• March 2017
  • 2017 John Hopkins report (Fulton County, Illinois)
• January 2017
  • Discussion Continues On Hog Facility (Daily Ledger)
• December 2016
  • Fulton County Pig Farm
• August 2016
  • Hog Confinements Still Alarm (Fulton County Democrat)
  • Possible Hog Farm Near Ipava Faces Opposition (Peoria Journal Star)

Illinois Projects

• Littleton - Olive Branch
• Vermillion County Update - 2 CAFOs approved by IDOA
• PSM Lawsuit Summary from Rural Residents for Responsible Agriculture
• ICCAW - Addressing Problems from Large-Scale Industrial Livestock Production Facilities in Illinois
• Chicago Tribune
  • Price of Pork (Chicago Tribune) - Offers several in-depth reports highlighting issues with factory farms
  • 4 New Measures Would Tighten Regulation of Massive Hog Confinements (March 28, 2017)
  • Sen Dick Durbin Urges Stronger Oversight of Illinois Hog Farming (August 3, 2016)

CAFO Basics

• CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories
• Where's the Farmer? Limiting Liability in Midwestern Industrial Hog Production
• CAFOs Uncovered-the untold costs of CAFO
• John Ikerd - Responses to CAFO defenders
• Jefferson County Farmers (Iowa) - Farms, Not Factories - NEW - Lots of great information on the need for a focus on family farms rather than corporate ones.

LFMA Basics

• IL Dept of Ag - LMFA Information
• IL Dept of Ag - Recent Notices of Intent to Constuct (Search by county) 
• Livestock Management Facilities Act
• Flushing Out the Illinois Livestock Management Facilities Act - Valparaiso University Law Review by Cronauer, Nicholas. (2010, Winter)

HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

• Human Impairment from Living near Confined Animal (Hog) Feeding Operations
• United States Is Turning into a Factory Farm for China, with Devastating Environmental Consequences
• US EPA's Informal Investigation of the IL EPA - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in the State of Illinois (2010, September)
• North Carolina
  • North Carolina Stench
  • North Carolina - Hog Feces Found on Homes
• Iowa
  • Tainted Water (Iowa)
  • Coalition Seeks to Put a Pause on Factory Farm Growth in Iowa
  • Iowans Seeking Improved Water Quality

OTHER TOPICS

• Property Values - Kilpatrick - Animal Operations and Residential Property Values
• Impacts of Feedlots on Property Values - A listing of resources related to property values and issues from large-scale feedlots
• Illinois Farm Bureau - Prairie Rivers Network: Dirty Water, Dirty Business - Highlights issues in Illinois related to polluted water as well as concerns with farm bureau policies.

 

Visit our TAKE ACTION page to learn what you can do to help our efforts to oppose local CAFOs.

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Prairie Rivers Network
Dirty Water, Dirty Business
Highlights issues in Illinois related to polluted water as well as concerns with the Illinois Farm Bureau.

Click here to read the NOPE letter sent to the Fulton County Farm Bureau in March 2017.

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