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'08 Democratic Candidates and Pork CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) in Iowa
(N)o candidate has taken as stringent a position against CAFOs as John Edwards, who made waves earlier this year by calling for a national moratorium on the expansion of existing CAFOs and the construction of new facilities altogether. During a campaign tour through the low-population counties in the western part of the state in October, Edwards unveiled the proposal, which also dovetails with his plan to ban packer ownership of hog lots and break up vertically integrated Big Pork. Local communities could individually opt out of the CAFO moratorium, but Edwards' rural initiatives team hopes that the proposal would dramatically reduce the number of corporate mega-lots in livestock-heavy states like Iowa and North Carolina.
(N)o candidate has taken as stringent a position against CAFOs as John Edwards, who made waves earlier this year by calling for a national moratorium on the expansion of existing CAFOs and the construction of new facilities altogether. During a campaign tour through the low-population counties in the western part of the state in October, Edwards unveiled the proposal, which also dovetails with his plan to ban packer ownership of hog lots and break up vertically integrated Big Pork. Local communities could individually opt out of the CAFO moratorium, but Edwards' rural initiatives team hopes that the proposal would dramatically reduce the number of corporate mega-lots in livestock-heavy states like Iowa and North Carolina.
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