Comments for Health Risks from Hog Confinements, Aug. 05 at http://www.iowasource.com , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.iowasource.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:52:18 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-1169 Hi all- I am a law student currently working on several projects related to factory farming and the health effects of CAFOs on residents. I'm not sure if anyone is still checking the comments section here, but if you live near a CAFO and have a story to tell, I would love to talk to you! Please email me at: sdemers@email.arizona.edu Also, to the article author: I would love to get in touch with you as well to find out more info about the sources you used, specifically the research studies on health effects. Thanks! - Sara Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:28:49 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-975 I will just say that I worked at a hog confinement for just over three years and have permanent damage done to my lungs and health in general. I cant say what corporation i worked for, but I will say it was located in S.E. Iowa. The company actually terminated me after they deemed my health was unfit for me to return to work. If you ever worked inside one of these confinements, anyone of you, I guarantee you would agree this is not the way animals were intended to be raised even for food. The health risks involved with the employees that work in these places is unreal. I was an average younger person in pretty good health before I started, and now I'm without a job and sick every damn day of my life because of that of that place. The companies dont care about the animals all they do is use the animals reproductive systems over and over again until they are done with them and then send them out the door to pork vendors for sausage or whatever they can do with them. They care that little about the animals. Truly I tell you they care far less about their employees than they do even the animals. Very Very sad!! - ex- confinement worker Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:25:20 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-966 There is a product to put in your pit that neutralizes the ammonia in the pit so there is basically no smell. It's going to be about $300 a month. We tested it in buckets of the slurry and we were very excited by the results. Hopefully in the future when the smell is gone people won't have anything to bitch about. :) Oh and we only run antibiotics when the pigs are sick, and we give them oxytetracycline, which is also given to cattle, dogs, and cats. Jesus people, get your facts straight - Proud hog producer :) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:35:30 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-883 having incurred 30,000 dollars worth of medical bills because my neighbor SPRAYS LIQUID HOG MANURE rather than knifing it into the soil....I can tell you that insurance won't cover all the bills hog waste will create because of illnesses one must suffer from hog manure. DEAD BONE disease results from bacteria eating away at your JAW BONES. Requires expensive BONE GRAFTs, not FUN! My neighbor literally SPRAYed me with hog manure....as he used 1970's tank to dump manure next to his hog barn, rather than drive down the road to some 2000 other acres ...thinks it is funny that "city girl who retired to local village can't stand hog smell"....BUT I AM FIFTH GENERATION FARMER, WHO GREW UP RAISING HOGS THE RIGHT WAY! NOT IN A CAGE, NOT OVER THEIR MANURE FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, EATING ANTIBIOTICS TO STAY ALIVE. Corporate serfs are Ignorant Americans....but Corporations OWN Governor Daniels in Indiana, who is off to China this week to SELL MORE PORK RAISED THE EXACT WAY THE COMMUNISTS WANT US TO RAISE HOGS! INDIANA is Third World Sewage Disposal location for hog manure! - Marcella Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:33:39 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-833 We have a house in Iowa that we are planning on moving into when we retire. We moved from Iowa 22 years ago because of the farming crisis but are coming back in a few short years. Now we find that a hog confinement is going up 1/2 mile from us! When we purchased the property, we felt safe that no confinments would be built in that area. So much for dreams! Ours is now ruined due to this confinement! We are all for agriculture but this isn't a family farm but rather a large company making money while ruining our property value. Maybe we should reconsider moving back to Iowa at all! - Retiree in Iowa Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:51:17 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-626 Do all of you like to eat everyday? May sound like a dumb question but without production agriculture you would never eat!! Give some respect to the farmers that feed the world would ya?! I get so frustrated about uneducated people that complain without knowing the facts about agriculture. Learn something before you complain... These confinements follow strict regulations and are required to be built so many feet away from residents. Its not their fault that you move there! And to the last comment, they get tax breaks because these are multi million dollar investments that they are making to feed you. They pay just as much as you do for a truck. Farmers are people too and deserve to drive whatever they wish! - *** Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:55:14 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-280 Go to the capitol with ideas? We have the best government that money (Farm Bureau) can buy. Hog farmers don't need numbers, they just own the representatives in Des Moines so they stink up the neighborhood, pollute the water underground from your lagoons and pits and generally rule the neighborhood and destroy property values. Oh, and "Have a nice day!" (And did you know they have legislation that gives them tax breaks on their new buildings and big pickup trucks. It's nice to know my taxes are taking up the slack for the taxes they don't pay. THANKS FARM BUREAU! By the way, did you know the "Right to Farm" legislation was declared unconstitutional in 2004? - downwind Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:18:08 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-211 So I live on a small family farm and we raised hogs for 50yrs. Realistically the hog confinement corporations put us out of business. Its depressing to see young people wanting to raise hogs in a more traditional small farm atmosphere, but simply cant since financially the government status wont allow it. Unfortunately hog confinements are disease stricken, unnatural, abusive environments. Now harry larry its been proven that hog confinements cause respiratory problems, but yes only to those who work inside them. Now look at the bigger picture, obviously that horrid smell is coming from the acid waste pits, besides smellling bad, without proper control the waste is polluting the land. Conservation suffers, our water ways are ruined with fish dying and drinking water ruined. Now girls, if the smell is the only thing your worried about then you need a reality check. Instead of putting up worthless arguments with ignorant harry larry, and stating shallow uneducated and unintelligent blogs on here, go to your count extension and conservation and start working on a reasonable arguement to pass onto the capital. - wouldntyou like to know Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:15:06 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-206 Larry, you are an asshole and deserve to have all your neighbors sue you for invading their air space. Get real and make some money off of all that crap by making use of the methane gasses. It's just too bad that there are so many people like you out there. - Debbie Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:13:21 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-199 You people are all retards. Its not your choice what people can do with there land. There are no real health risks from the smell of a hog confinment building as long as your not inside it. There is a possibility of being allergic to hog dust, but it does not affect you unless your in the confinment with the hogs. If you do not like what your neighbor is doing with their land then move away or deal with it. - Larry Schrodt Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:13:25 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-139 Katie- I would further like to speak with you about your little sister's friend's brother. Could you please e-mail me or give me some contact information for yourself? laura-klairmont@uiowa.edu is my email address - laura Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:17:36 +0100 http://www.iowasource.com/health/CAFO_airqu_0805.html#comment-134 Oh lord; no kidding. I live about 1,200 feet from a hog confinement. It's not fun to smell hog crap every day. There IS health effects to hog confinements. My little sister's friend's little brother actually stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the emergency room for the smell was so overpowering. They moved away, naturally. It's a huge issue. Not only is it unhealthy for people; the hogs are so bunched together; it's insane. I'm not even to begin imagining all the diseases that are teeming around in those confinements. There's my two cents. - Katie Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:42:11 +0100