In a message dated 98-10-25 12:50:39 EST, you write:

<< he Draft Strategy acknowledges the roots of factory farming pollution
 problems:  the decoupling of animal production from feed production and the
 concentration of large amounts of manure and wastewater on farms and in
 watersheds.  Yet, the Draft Strategy assumes, erroneously, that large-scale
 factory farming is both inevitable and potentially sustainable, and
 recommends the expenditure of large amounts of public funds for technical
 assistance and cost-share money to encourage and subsidize factory farms
 and for a regulatory system that will attempt to bandage over some of the
 excesses of a deeply flawed production system.
         Economic and environmentally-sound sustainable alternatives exist to
 large-scale factory farms.  The Draft Strategy should recommend that these
 existing, truly sustainable livestock production practices be encouraged as
 alternatives to factory farms.
  >>

Thanks for posting this Lyle. This goes to the heart of the matter: we need to
stop factory farms, not just regulate them!

Tom Mathews

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