Conservation groups, scientists, doctors and public-health experts filed a legal brief today supporting constitutional claims raised by Mayan children who oppose approval and operation of a massive industrial hog farm on ecologically sensitive and culturally important lands in the Yucatán Peninsula.
The friend-of-the-court (amicus curiae) brief filed in the Second District Court in the State of Yucatán today describes the substantial body of scientific evidence about the grave and irreversible harms to human health and the environment associated with industrial hog operations. These harms include contamination of water such as naturally occurring freshwater wells known as cenotes; emission of noxious air pollution; the spread of dangerous pathogens; and contributions to climate change.
For Immediate Release, May 5, 2021
Contact:
Angélica Simón, Greenpeace Mexico, +52 (555) 534-3544, angelica.simon@greenpeace.org
Nydia Gutierrez, Earthjustice, (202) 302-7531, ngutierrez@earthjustice.org (for English)
Robert Valencia, Earthjustice, (305) 457-7938, rvalencia@earthjustie.org (for Spanish)
Kelly Hunter Foster, Waterkeeper Alliance, (212) 747-0622 ext. 160, kfoster@waterkeeper.orgkfoster@waterkeeper.org (for English)
Public Health Experts, Conservationists Ask Mexico’s Highest Court to Uphold Suspension of 49,000-Hog Industrial Animal Operation in Yucatán Peninsula
Efforts Support Constitutional Claims Raised by Mayan Children
MEXICO CITY,
Mexico Conservation groups, scientists, doctors and public-health experts filed a legal brief with Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation today supporting constitutional claims raised by Mayan children who oppose approval and operation of an industrial animal operation in the Yuca