Hi Ron, thanks for sharing additional information! I appreciate your comment. If you want to talk about it more, I’d love to hear your thoughts. My email is lena@modfarmer.com. Thanks again!

It would be wise to remember that there were also less humans, so no issues with herds of bison ruminants roaming around. Less competition for space and resources, fewer sources of emissions overall. This would be the ssame if there were less humans overall and large migrating herds of cows roaming around. So we can’t have it both ways. Fewer humans or fewer cultivation of ruminants we rely upon as food source. This would essentially make CAFO’s unnecessary, make it possible for small artisanal range grass-fed pasture farms to exist and prosper, as meat and dairy would go up in price and be a true reflection of what their value actually is. They would be a luxury commodity.

If you only live next to a CAFO, you might understand why people are concerned about not being able to open the windows, worry about what health effects may occur to children and grandchildren playing outside, and if you can sell the place to get away from the CAFO.

The concerned citizens would not listen to what was proposed to be brought in. They did poor research and claimed that they were going to bring in products that would harm the environment. The products that they claimed were going to be brought in would be harmful to the operation of the digester. Even though they were repeatedly told they were wrong they continued to just make up stuff to make it look bad(I tried to find some of there information and goggle couldn’t find it, what does that tell you) please read the comment above from Ron Brooks, he is the owner of the farm talked about in this story.