The Farm Bureau is a fairly powerful organization, particularly when it comes to protecting its factory farm members. Many of these members are known as concentrated animal feeding operations
(CAFOs); these operations have often been
exposed for abusing livestock, passing off sick cattle as
healthy, and polluting water and air quality with
massive amounts of animal manure. Drinking water pollution has been a
serious problem for communities near these operations, which the US
Geological Survey identified as the largest source of nitrogen pollution in the country.
The bureau is successful at state and federal levels. It was even able to get the EPA to rescind a rule which would have allowed the EPA to track how many
animals each CAFO holds, how much manure is being discharged into the
water supply, and which facilities are violating the Clean Water Act.
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