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Comments on the Potential Regional Economic Effects of Large Feedlots,
by Dr. William J. Weida, Department of Economics, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
and The Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
Factory Farm Project,
www.factoryfarm.org, August 24, 2001
This paper is divided into two sections.
The first section discusses current research findings concerning the
regional economic impacts from large, concentrated animal feeding
operations (CAFOs). The second discusses the factors inherent in
these operations that create the impacts discussed in Section 1.
EPA manages a number of web sites that post information related to the CAFO
regulations that were proposed by EPA on January 12, 2001. At these web
sites, a number of support documents for the rule are available, including
the Technical Development Document, Economic Analysis, Environmental
Assessment, Environmental and Economic Benefit Analysis, cost methodology
reports, and also guidance related to Permit Nutrient Plans. These
documents are located at http://www.epa.gov/ost/guide/cafo/. Other
information is available at http://www.epa.gov/npdes/afo/ and include a
compendium of AFO-related State program information.
Researchers at the Food and Agricultural Policy Research
Institute (FAPRI) at University of Missouri have conducted a review of
EPA's economic analysis. FAPRI's report, FAPRI's Analysis of the EPA's
Proposed CAFO Regulation, is available at FAPRI's website at
http://www.fapri.missouri.edu/FAPRI_Publications.htm.
Smithfield Foods CEO Welcomes Backlash Over Its Hog Farms
The Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2001
In Pig Farming, Growing Concern Raising Sows in Crates Is Questioned
Washington Post, June 18, 2001
Agribusiness Wants $12 Billion to Clean Up Their Manure Wastes
Bllomberg News Service, July 24, 2001
Environmentalists, Hog Industry Continue to Battle
ABC News, World News Tonight report on North Carolina, July 30, 2001
The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy executive summary on CAFO impacts.
June 29, 2001
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
link to full report on CAFOs and the industrialization of animal agriculture
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