The Iowa Policy Project, a non-partisan and non-profit group released a report last week calling for heavier regulations on confined animal feeding operations. The report also recommends the state place a moratorium on new CAFOs. Report author and policy project’s lead environmental researcher David Osterberg says more restrictive legislation is needed.
He says studies they looked at in their report indicated negative health impacts from CAFOs.
Osterberg says the state should throw out the Master Matrix and put in newer and more effective regulations.
Osterberg says the reports findings also showed the need to challenge the constitutionality of anti nuisance suit and ag gag legislation, establishing land covenants and other local legal strategies to limit local CAFO growth., and to pass legislation to encourage renewable energy production from animal waste.
