http://biodynamicsbda.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/downwind-downstream-and-downhill/ November 2, 2011 by biodynamicsbda By Karen Davis-Brown ©Long Hungry Creek Farm Imagine that you live in a paradise. Long Hungry Creek Farm is located outside the town of Red Boiling Springs, in Macon County, in the hills of north central Tennessee. It is one of the oldest (established in 1974) and largest (250…
Here is what Cobb wrote back to a letter writer, who was kind enough to share Cobb’s response to their letter with us: “Thank you for recent letter. We respect your right to express your views about plans by a Macon County family farmer to build chicken houses near Jeff Poppen’s property; however, we also…
[The EPA admits freely the potential dangers of CAFOs in this short, concise statement. –Alan] How Do CAFOs Impact the Environment? Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are facilities where large numbers of poultry, swine, cattle or other animal types are confined within a much smaller area than traditional pasture operations. The concentration of the wastes…
Impacts of CAFOs on Rural Communities[i] John Ikerd[ii] http://web.missouri.edu/~ikerdj/papers/Indiana%20–%20CAFOs%20%20Communities.htm The only thing that promoters and opponents of large-scale confinement animal feeding operations (CAFOs) agreed on is that CAFOs invariably create conflicts in rural communities. The CAFO promoters accuse the opponents of being emotional, uninformed, radicals, opposed to modern agriculture and to progress in general. The…
Report Jul 26, 2011 Reforming Industrial Animal Agriculture Contact: Dave Bard, 202.778.4551 & Jamie Shor, 202.339.9598 Related Resources Press Release Videos: Broilers and the Chesapeake Polluting Poultry in the Chesapeake Photo Gallery Broiler chickens (raised for their meat) are produced by the millions in industrial facilities concentrated in just a handful of states, and much…
While is wasn’t as well attended as the first dinner, the food was second to none! So many good, homemade foods, just trying a little of everything required an elastic waistband. The hardest part was having to play a set on such a full belly. Those who know me know I’m into wild foods, and…
The Kirbytown community, made up of the neighbors surrounding the location for the industrial chicken operation we’ve been contesting, threw a fund raiser on April 8th to help study the impact of living near these complexes that house 40,000 chickens at a time. With free range birds from Wedge Oak Farms in Lebanon as the…
Tennessean Newspaper Mar. 20, 2011 Written by Anne Paine RED BOILING SPRINGS, Tenn. — Jeff Poppen’s chickens followed him as he carried a bucket of grain across one of his organic fields at Long Hungry Creek Farm last week. Above them, atop a steep hill just behind Poppen’s fruit and vegetable gardens, stood a pile…
I spoke of this video in a previous post. This is the best view most of us will ever get inside one of these operations. While I am confident this was filmed in a brand new, spotless clean chicken house, it does reveal many of the practices which seem to make this industry more of…