by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Nov 20, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, State Policy
In the winter of 2018, Lauralynn Cornelsen moved out of her mobile home in Sunizona, an unincorporated community in southeast Arizona. After more than six years, she was tired of hauling water for drinking and bathing, and she couldn’t afford to drill a well —...
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Jun 1, 2021 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, State Policy
In late January last year, dairy farmers filled a pub in the tiny town of Greenwald, Minnesota (population 238). Organisers from the Land Stewardship Project – a sustainable agriculture nonprofit – expected 50 people to attend, but 130 showed up from all...
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Mar 11, 2021 | Opinion Pieces, State Policy
A 10,467-hog factory farm is attempting to build near farms and homes, near the Poosey Conservation Area in Livingston County. It’s a JBS contract operation, meaning the hogs would be owned by JBS, a Brazilian corporation and the biggest meat packer in the world....
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Feb 12, 2021 | Opinion Pieces, State Policy
I’m an independent Missouri farmer and livestock producer, and JBS, the largest meatpacker in the world and a Brazilian corporation is attempting to put a 10,500 head hog operation next to my community and the Poosey Conservation Area in Livingston County, Missouri....
by Laura Flacks-Narrol | Mar 3, 2020 | CFFE in the News, Factory Farm Subsidies, Solutions, State Policy
When Anthony Castle moved to rural Rockwell City, Iowa, he pictured working on cars outside while his 6-year-old daughter, Hannah, played in the yard nearby. Castle’s house is on a secluded stretch of one of Calhoun County’s many narrow, unpaved roads that crisscross...
