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Is This Megadairy A Threat to NW Illinois Residents' Health and Livelihood?

Sure! In December of 2007, a number of my neighbors learned that A.J. Bos, a California millionaire, was planning to build the largest industrial dairy east of the Mississippi near our homes. Jo Daviess County is dotted with traditional family farms, some of which have been in the same family for over 150 years. Agriculture and tourism are our county's main industries, and this facility, with its 11,000 cows on a few hundred acres, threatened to destroy them both.  The more we learned about this project, and the poor reputation that the owner, A.J. Bos, had earned at his previous 52,000 head animal factory in Oregon, the more worried we became. The United Farm Workers had sued him repeatedly over a five year period for sexual discrimination and paying workers below minimum wage. The National Association of Clean Air Agencies testified in Congress that his facility was the single largest point source of ammonia discharge in America. The Illinois EPA had a terrible track record in policing other animal factories in Illinois. And once in, he could easily expand his facility to 40,000 cows without requiring any more permits or public oversight. The county board quickly requested a public informational meeting from the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA). Over 500 residents spent six hours on a cold snowy night listening to the engineers explain their plan, and airing their concerns that this facility would destroy the rural communities that made this area so desirable for family farms, retirees, and tourists. The county board also heard testimony from the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS) that warned of possible contamination to our streams and wells should this facility be built over the fractured bedrock found in our region of the state. In the end, they voted 11 to 5 to prohibit this facility from being built in our county.

Abuse and Health From the Illinois Jo Daviess - Blogspot

Parental alienation is often times used against child abuse victims reporting abuse as the criminal defense for pedophiles and parental abusers of physical child abuse and mental child abuse.. For the children the advertising, promotion and use of a pro-criminal theory supporting incest must end. Write your State and Local officials and ask them to raise awareness about the harm caused to children when incest is promoted with pro-pedophile parental alienation therapy and theory. thank you.

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