Despite the goal to unite Missourians around a common cause, rural advocacy groups have been pushing the E-P-A for more regulation from the Clean Water Act on corporate farming. Tim Gibbons with the Missouri Rural Crisis Center says the Clean Water Act has not been adequately updated since the industrialization of the livestock industry and factory farms are infringing on the rights of rural family farmers, including their property, water and air.
According to a report from Food and Water Watch, a single hog produces around one and a half tons of manure every year, and all the hog farms in the U-S produce a total of about 167 million pounds of waste—equivalent to the waste produced by half the country’s human population.
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