Reports
As a public service JFAN recommends the following articles to help educate you on the ongoing issues surrounding CAFO’s and their effect on health and the environment as well as viable alternatives.
Report: Threatening Iowa's Future -
May 19, 2004
Iowa's Failure
to Implement and Enforce the Clean Water Act for Livestock Operations
by Michele Merkel
CAFO
Odor Survey Data View
(Iowa DNR Air Quality)
Increased
Asthma Found Among Iowa Children Living on Hog Farms
University of Iowa News Release, Reported in Living Well 1/15-2/14
2005
Concentrated
Animal Feeding Operations: Public Health and Community Impacts
Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, September 2002
Putting
Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America
PEW Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
CAFOs
Uncovered
The Untold Costs of Confined Animal
Feeding Operations
Union of Concerned Scientists
Environmental Defense Fund: Adverse Health Effects of Hog Production: A Literature Review
Environmental Health Impacts of
Concentrated Animal Feeding OperationsAnticipating
Hazards – Searching for Solutions
Peter S.Thorne
Health
Effects of Airborne Exposures from Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operations
Dick Heederik, Torben Sigsgaard, Peter S. Thorne, Joel N. Kline,
Rachel Avery, Jacob Bønløkke, Elizabeth A. Chrischilles,
James A. Dosman, Caroline Duchaine, Steven R. Kirkhorn, Katarina
Kulhankova and James A. Merchant
Community Health and Socioeconomic Issues
Surrounding CAFOsThe
Potential Role of CAFOs in Infectious Disease Epidemics and Antibiotic
Resistance
Kelley J. Donham, Steven Wing, David Osterberg, Jan L. Flora, Carol
Hodne, Kendall M. Thu and Peter S. Thorne
CRS: Air Quality and Animal Agriculture: EPA's Air Compliance Agreement
CRS: Animal Waste and Water Quality: EPA CAFO Regulation
GAO: Oversight of Food Safety Activities
Antibiotic Resistance and CAFO's
Greener Eggs and Ham: The Benefits of Pasture-Raised Swine, Poultry, and Egg Production
Community
Health and Socioeconomic Issues Surrounding CAFOs
Dr. Kendall Thu and Associates
Health
Effects of Airborne Exposures from Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operations
Peter S. Thorne, Joel N. Kline,
& Associates
The
Potential Role of CAFOs in Infectious Disease Epidemics and Antibiotic
Resistance
Mary J. Gilchrist & Associates
Monitoring
and Modeling of Emissions from CAFOs: Overview of Methods
Bryon Bunton & Associates
Impacts of
Waste from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) on Water
Quality
JoAnn Burkholder & Associates