Guest guest Posted June 4, 2001 Report Share Posted June 4, 2001 Should We Fear the Factory Farm? Massive livestock operations are raising troubling questions about water safety BY ANDREW NIKIFORUK AND DANYLO HAWALESHKA >From Maclean’s Long after Walkerton, Ont., where E. coli from cattle manure is thought to have contaminated the water supply with fatal results, many rural Canadians continue to wonder about the impact livestock farming can have on groundwater. And the growth of factory farms -- what governments call intensive livestock operations -- has further unsettled farm communities from New Brunswick to Alberta. Unlike the family enterprises of old, which cared for 20 pigs or 60 cattle, these new facilities operate on an entirely different and inadequately regulated scale. http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2001/06/factory_farm.html -- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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