The Daily Yonder Information on Factory Farms Is Spotty at Best. The Government Has Been Hogtied from Doing More There is no comprehensive list of all the concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in the Midwest. A lawsuit prevented the federal government from making one, and states take different approaches.
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Hogs feed in a pen in a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, on a farm, in Lawler, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Deborah Bunka knows she’s in Hardin County, Iowa, when the smell of manure starts to filter in through her car’s air conditioning.
As the membership director for Iowa Farmers Union, Bunka has spent a lot of time talking to farmers in counties like Hardin, where pigs outnumber people about 37 to 1. And she’s seen firsthand the effects of living in close proximity to so many animals.
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