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Indigenous, human-rights, conservation, and public-health groups are asking the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold a thematic hearing on human-rights abuses caused by industrial meat, egg and dairy facilities across the American continents.
The request urges the commission, which monitors human rights within the Organization of American States, to investigate human-rights abuses resulting from the unchecked expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, across the Americas. The groups are asking the commission to issue a report with recommendations to address those abuses.
Indigenous and human-rights groups, conservationists, scientists, doctors and public-health experts petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today to hold a formal hearing on human-rights abuses caused by factory farms, also known as industrial animal feeding operations, across North America and South America.
The groups are requesting that the commission, which monitors human rights within the Organization of American States, hold a “thematic” hearing to compile information about human-rights abuses resulting from the unchecked expansion of industrial animal feeding operations and issue a report with recommendations to address those abuses. A thematic hearing could increase public awareness of, and draw additional attention to, the grave human-rights abuses caused by these operations.
The 19 petitioning groups include representatives from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador and the United States. The request is additionally supported by 127 organizations and 1
Gov. Wolf’s efforts to control methane pollution aren’t enough | PennLive letters
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Pennsylvania is 2nd in line under the list of the highest natural gas producing states. We have a methane pollution problem in PA and there is a solution. Methane emissions are responsible for nearly 25 percent of global warming, states The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente) or AIDA.
As a state we must be aware of the potential dangers of methane. In 2019, Gov. Tom Wolf made an executive order to reduce emissions of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and prevent oil leaks from these businesses, but it fell short of fully eradicating the problem. As a result, leaving the public at risk of climate related problems such as increased summer temperatures and negative health outcomes like an increase in heart disease and exasperating respiratory diseases.