Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Food and Water Action presented 7500 petition signatures to presidential candidates asking them to support federal legislation to put a moratorium on confined animal feeding operations. ICCI Policy Director Adam Mason says they want Congress to pass Senator Cory Booker’s Farm System Reform Act.

ICCI is also working on the issue at the state level and Mason says they’re also backing a pair of bills in the Iowa Legislature to curtail CAFO operations.

Mason says while it’s a bit of a battle at the federal level with lessening of regulations under the Trump administration, their hope is there will be a change when voters make their views known in November.

Mason says Iowans are already dealing with over 10,000 CAFOs and several waterways that are impaired.