What if you knew that a particular industry was polluting our waterways, land and air, yet nothing was being done about it? The industry is animal agriculture, specifically CAFOs, concentrated animal feeding operations, with cows, chickens, and pigs.
The dangerous pollution, which comes from the tons of excrement produced each day by these animals, has been happening for years, yet the Environmental Protection Agency does next to nothing. State legislatures do what they can to protect the polluters and the public averts their eyes.
In this Mothering Earth program, you’ll learn about CAFOs, and what you can do to change this situation.
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Kara Goad is a Senior Associate Attorney with the Sustainable Food and Farming Program at Earthjustice, where she supports the program’s work to advance climate-friendly agricultural practices and reduce pollution from industrial agriculture. Before coming to Earthjustice, Kara was a law clerk for the Honorable Albert Diaz in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Honorable James P. Jones in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Kara received her J.D. from Cornell Law School and her B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and she is from Blacksburg, Virginia.
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