July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
More safeguards for CAFOs
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
Rae Schnapp said the same thing in Friday's paper that I've been saying for years!
Large confined feeding operations need some sort of sewage treatment plant to eliminate the bad bacteria in the waste from these animals before our food supply kills us all.
These animal factories are polluting our planet for money. Let them part with some of their money and take responsibility for the pollution they are creating.
Why are these people coming to such a densely populated area to build confined feeding and large milking operations? It seems that a big cement feed lot is no place for an animal to stay healthy.
Why don't they go where there is more room for them and not so many people to endanger? There are wide-open spaces in this country that don't have rivers running through them.
We need more safeguards no matter where they put their operations.
Years ago when there was maybe 30 head of cattle on a 120 acre farm, they spent the time between milkings in a pasture field, most of the waste got spread automatically and the rest got spread over a very wide area. It was not liquid. You didn't worry about it getting into the drinking water or the creek from a leak in a multi-acre lagoon.
Also, our cows were healthy and didn't need to be shot full of antibiotics just to survive!
Mike and Susie Martin
Portland
Good fun
To the editor:
Lose the TV. Yes, turn it off and head north to Bearcreek Farms. In an effort to keep it operating, Carla and others have gone all-out to provide good food, entertainment and several weekends ago a carnival and a lot of free fun events for kids.
There are great shows every week - some at reduced prices. Every Wednesday a show is performed for the price of a meal.
Jamie, Ken, Vicky and others put on a first-rate variety show, and they're all professionals. Affordable entertainment and fun can be found right here in Jay County.
Tom Kennedy
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
Rae Schnapp said the same thing in Friday's paper that I've been saying for years!
Large confined feeding operations need some sort of sewage treatment plant to eliminate the bad bacteria in the waste from these animals before our food supply kills us all.
These animal factories are polluting our planet for money. Let them part with some of their money and take responsibility for the pollution they are creating.
Why are these people coming to such a densely populated area to build confined feeding and large milking operations? It seems that a big cement feed lot is no place for an animal to stay healthy.
Why don't they go where there is more room for them and not so many people to endanger? There are wide-open spaces in this country that don't have rivers running through them.
We need more safeguards no matter where they put their operations.
Years ago when there was maybe 30 head of cattle on a 120 acre farm, they spent the time between milkings in a pasture field, most of the waste got spread automatically and the rest got spread over a very wide area. It was not liquid. You didn't worry about it getting into the drinking water or the creek from a leak in a multi-acre lagoon.
Also, our cows were healthy and didn't need to be shot full of antibiotics just to survive!
Mike and Susie Martin
Portland
Good fun
To the editor:
Lose the TV. Yes, turn it off and head north to Bearcreek Farms. In an effort to keep it operating, Carla and others have gone all-out to provide good food, entertainment and several weekends ago a carnival and a lot of free fun events for kids.
There are great shows every week - some at reduced prices. Every Wednesday a show is performed for the price of a meal.
Jamie, Ken, Vicky and others put on a first-rate variety show, and they're all professionals. Affordable entertainment and fun can be found right here in Jay County.
Tom Kennedy
Portland[[In-content Ad]]
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