Iowa Factory Farms Get Environmental Permitting Pass — SkimNews
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- Iowa faces a water crisis in which factory farms are described as receiving a pass on environmental permitting.
- Feeding the Beast is the third installment in a series on lax regulation, corporate influence, and the “heavily polluting, yet nearly untouchable” American meat industry; it opens with rainwater running downhill toward a stream near Gordon Garrison’s property in Estherville.
Why it matters: Under the report’s central framing, factory farms are given a regulatory advantage while runoff reaching a stream beside Gordon Garrison’s property becomes the concrete pressure point. The only explicit count is that “Feeding the Beast” is the third installment; no figures on farms, permits, or water quality are supplied, leaving the scale of the disparity unspecified.
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