"CAFOs uncovered"

This is Hell (best show on the radio, seriously, check it out) had a wonderfully informative interview with Doug Gurian-Sherman, who is the senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He just issued a report on CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) called CAFOs Uncovered. This issue really touches home as my parents live next to one of these toxic shit releasing concentration camps. One of the myths of mass confinement operations is they're more efficient than traditional smaller operations. Many people, including myself, assumed that the one possible positive thing about them would be higher production in food. That's not the case at all, production has largely stayed the same since the introduction of CAFOs. What has changed is the agriculture industry. It has largely been centralized into a few hands that have ever increasing wealth, which obviously brings ever increasing power. Surprise, surprise.

(I forgot to add this last night, but I post Sunday mornings at The Peace Tree. Yesterday, I reposted a piece I wrote last year on the ongoing destruction of Somalia. Sunday saw thousands in central Somalia protest the latest U.S. terrorist attack against them. Today, food protests have hit Mogadishu.)