This is having a tremendous impact on my area right now. Due to the ravenous march of construction in Southern California, the large dairy companies are relocating to Fresno and Kings county. Even after reading this report, our idiot zoning commissions kept letting them expand to literally thousands of cows at each facility, doing nothing but standing, shitting, and being milked 24/7. When the folks moving into new houses in the same counties began gagging every time they opened the door, somebody finally noticed and they are pretending to do environmental reports now, although the dairy seems to be doing the moving first and the reporting afterwards. One of them has even installed a "cooker" on his site which he claims will produce enough power from the waste (I do not say "manure" and you will know why if you have ever toured a large-scale livestock operation) to run his entire facility and have some left over to sell to the local electric companies. This month it was proclaimed that California has now surpassed Wisconsin in the production of dairy products. Lucky us
12-14-2006, 02:53 AM
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