IATP Hog Report - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Section 3
4. Mandate opportunities for public participation in the decision to
grant a permit for a new animal factory or expansion of an existing
one.
5. Require frequent inspection of animal factories and require
factories to conduct regular air and water quality monitoring
programs near manure storage facilities.
6. Mobilize public support at the local, state, and federal level to get
strong factory farm regulations enacted that are protective of the
environment and public health, and involve citizens in monitoring
the regulatory activities of state agencies to hold them responsible
for enforcing these regulations.
7. Educate consumers to avoid factory-produced meat and instead
choose meat produced by diversified, family farmers using animal
rearing and manure disposal methods that are harmonious with
animal needs, the natural environment, and consumers'
expectations.
8. Mobilize public support for legislation that would force polluters
to pay the total costs of their technology choices by making them
reimburse the public for environmental and health damages caused
by their operations, and by preventing them from being able to
transfer unwanted costs of their technology choices, such as
environmental cleanup and technology retrofits, onto taxpayers
and consumers.
9. Help citizens mobilize to oppose state and federal legislation
giving animal factories and their owners and investors limited
liability status that relieves them of responsibility for monetary
and environmental damages.
10. Mobilize public support to hold land grant universities accountable
for the time and public money they spend helping animal factories
compete against independent family farms when they research,
develop, and provide direct assistance with technologies that
promote the interests of large-scale animal factory owners and
investors to the exclusion of smaller scale independent family
farmers.
11. Mobilize public support to put pressure on land grant universities
to research, develop, and provide technical assistance for
production technologies that are sustainable and appropriate for
the size and scale of independent family livestock farms.
12. Prevent legislatures from taking control over zoning away from
counties and townships.
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