A genius move for activism on an important issue — environmental, climatological, dietary, pollution, you name it. An interactive factory farm map. Where’s your nearest hog farm? Find out here.
Or, as the New York Times puts it, politely but firmly, in an editorial:
Wherever it appears, factory farming has two notable effects. It
threatens the environment, because of huge concentrations of animal
manure and lax regulation. And it threatens local political control.
Residents who want a say over whether and where factory farms, whose
stench can be overwhelming, can be built find their voices drowned out
by the industry’s cash and lobbying clout.
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It’s important to read this map not as a static record of farm sites or
a mere inventory of animals. It is really a map of overwhelming change
and conflict. It raises two of the fundamental questions facing
American agriculture. Do we pursue the logic of industrialism to its
limits in a biological landscape? And how badly will doing so harm the
landscape, the people who live in it and the democracy with which they
govern themselves?
Kit Stolz 