Comments on: Up Close and Personal with Where Breakfast Comes From http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/12/up-close-and-personal-with-where-breakfast-comes-from/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=up-close-and-personal-with-where-breakfast-comes-from Buzz about the Next Generation of Water Protection Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ernest Martinson http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/2012/12/up-close-and-personal-with-where-breakfast-comes-from/comment-page-1/#comment-47540 Ernest Martinson Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:33:37 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/healthywaters/?p=3214#comment-47540 Rather than just spreading manure on the field, big farmers are spreading costs onto taxpayers. They do not just concentrate production such as in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, they also concentrate subsidies.

Manure is not just a byproduct of production, it is a valuable resource. It can replace synthetic fertilizers, thus killing two birds with one stone: Waste disposal and fertilizer procurement. But these are not the fowls being killed in today’s foul industrial agriculture. Among the falling flock is the environment and workers in it, the poor consumers of substandard food, and tired taxpayers supporting factory farming.

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