DATCP Board Meeting Jan 13, 2010

Hi Supporters--Rushing right into the New Year here, we have a DATCP Board meeting coming up in Madison on Wednesday, Jan 13 at the DATCP offices, 2811 Ag Drive. The Board will be making decisions on how to proceed with the Livestock Siting Law Rules Review.

We need people to attend at 10:00, just to be there, so the Board recognizes that we are a large voice of concern. Perhaps some of our Madison area supporters could attend?

And we need a couple of people to speak on behalf of all of us, to make a statement of why the rural citizens of Wisconsin must be included in this process. They will need to be there at least by 9:00. A couple of us spoke at the last meeting and can help formulate ideas. They need to hear other voices.

Please let us know if you can attend and if you'd want to speak.

Thank you for this effort.

Edie Ehlert, CSP Coordinator


"While CAFOs clearly are profitable, they are only profitable because so much of the cost and damage is externalized onto the environment, neighbors and wildlife. The monitoring, supervision, clean-up, restitution, fines are not happening, thus the true cost of CAFOs never find the way onto the balance books." Talking point from the CAFO Conference.