Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America - A Report of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production
FarmWeb.org - Stronger laws are needed for the rapidly changing livestock industry.
Current laws in Illinois and in many other states are woefully inadequate to protect family farmers, rural communities, water quality, air quality, and property values.
Sierra Club - Enjoy, Explore and Protect the planet.
American Bar Association - Although livestock producers view the hog as a basically clean animal, its manure smells worse than that of any other livestock. This fact, plus the recent concentration of hogs in large farms, has led to both nuisance actions and environmental regulations for keeping the smells within reasonable bounds.
cato.org - Do farmers have the right to pollute?