In this bonus content, Krissy Kasserman and Alex Beauchamp from Food & Water Watch dive deeper into the environmental devastation caused by factory farms. Krissy details how manure from these operations contaminates water supplies, pollutes air, and disrupts rural communities—from lagoons rupturing during hurricanes in North Carolina to Iowa’s drinking water requiring the second largest nitrate removal system in the world. Meanwhile, Alex discusses the rapid decline of family farms in New York and the concerning trend of “mega-dairies” expanding eastward despite limited land resources.
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