In The Bull’s Eye – Our Environment in Cross Hairs Teresa Turk Guest Writer letter in Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Report presented by Carol Bitting to APC&E Commission, April 25, 2014n Preliminary results of the dye tracing test on Big Creek are these; we initially injected dye into a dug well across the county road from C & H Hog Farm at 9:30 am Tuesday morning, April 22. We recovered […]

Panel halts new pig-farm permits in watershed   By Ryan McGeeney This article was published April 26, 2014 at 4:38 a.m. ·         The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission issued a 180-day moratorium Friday on the issuance of permits for medium- and large-scale, swine animal-feeding operations and concentrated animal-feeding operations within […]

Arkansas Times Ozark Society and Arkansas Public Policy Panel pushing rule to ban new large swine farms in Buffalo River watershed Posted by David Ramsey on Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:01 PM The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission today granted petitions to begin the rulemaking process to prohibit […]

http://mikemastersonsmessenger.com/dangerous-e-coli-soars-along-big-creek/ By Mike Masterson Posted: April 19, 2014 at 2:52 a.m. “E. coli soars in Big Creek By Mike Masterson Posted: April 19, 2014 at 2:52 a.m. National Park Service water-quality tests conducted earlier this month along Big Creek near where it converges with the Buffalo National River showed harmful […]

A Letter to Cargill Northwest Arkansas Times By Mike Masterson Posted: April 12, 2014 at 2:41 a.m. While a single voice raised in the court of public opinion can prompt change, I’ve found even greater power from voices lifted in unison. Many outcries lifted in harmony can carry enormous influence when […]

Robert Cross: Buffalo River, like the Illinois, under attack  Posted: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:00 am | Updated: 4:47 am, Thu Apr 10, 2014.By ROBERT CROSS  nn Anyone who has recently floated northeast Oklahoma’s Illinois River very well knows it’s not the sparkling stream of generations past. The once clear, free-flowing […]

Hog Wild: Factory Farms Are Poisoning Iowa’s Drinking Water Millions of pigs are crammed into overcrowded barns all across the state, being fattened for slaughter while breeding superbugs all to feed China’s growing appetite for Spam.  nn By Ted Genoways | Fri Mar. 21, 2014 3:00 AM PDT Tim Geers/Flickr […]

Are We Becoming China’s Factory Farm? US hog operations are feeding more than a billion people’s growing appetite for pork.   China is in the midst of a love affair with pork. Its consumption of the stuff has nearly doubled since 1993 and just keeps rising. The Chinese currently eat […]

Farm seeks OK on change to permit Dozens attend manure-application hearing By Ryan McGeeney Posted: March 26, 2014 at 5 a.m. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/RYAN MCGEENEY  Photo: John Bailey (from left), head of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s water division permits branch, discusses technical aspects of the nutrient management plan designed by […]

http://ecowatch.com/2014/02/28/waterkeepers-governor-declare-state-emergency-pig-deaths-ped/nn Waterkeepers Urge Governor to Declare State of Emergency on Pig Deaths from PED John Deike | February 28, 2014 10:02 am  On Thursday, Waterkeeper Alliance and North Carolina Riverkeepers called on the North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Troxler, to protect public and environmental health against the swine industry’s […]

Arkansas Democrat Gazette Guest column A factory farm’s effect on tourism   By GORDON WATKINS SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE This article was published March 23, 2014 at 3:35 a.m. Arkansas is the Natural State, or at least that’s how it’s advertised. Over the years, millions of tax dollars have been […]

Dear Governor Beebe,                                                                                                               March 21, 2014 Many concerned citizens attended the Big Creek Research & Extension Team’s seminar led by Dr. Andrew Sharpley at the U of A on March 11, 2014.  Like most Arkansans, it was our understanding that the state-funded study was initiated to ease fears of C&H polluting nearby […]

National Parks Traveler Magazine Essential Paddling Guide: Can Hogs Be Farmed Safely Upstream Of Buffalo National River?Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on March 24, 2014 – 6:53am What threat does a commercial hog farm pose to the Buffalo National River?  nn Often the health of our rivers, lakes, and streams in the […]

‘Shut down’ if it pollutes By Mike MastersonThis article was published March 15, 2014 Gov. Mike Beebe told several members at a protest last week that the controversial hog factory (that his state agency wrongheadedly permitted in the Buffalo National River watershed) would be “shut down” if it pollutes the precious […]

From the Log Cabin Democrat, Conway, AR:nn Mosby: Hog farm and the Buffalo River Posted: March 15, 2014 – 11:23am Several aspects of the significant controversy over the hog farm near the Buffalo River disturb us. One, the foremost, is a potential threat to this Arkansas and national gem – […]

The Opinion Pages  The Unhealthy Meat MarketMARCH 12, 2014 Nicholas Kristof Where does our food come from? Often the answer is Tyson Foods, America’s meat factory. Tyson, one of the nation’s 100 biggest companies, slaughters 135,000 head of cattle a week, along with 391,000 hogs and an astonishing 41 million chickens. Nearly […]

By JAIME ADAME ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEPosted: March 12, 2014 at 6 a.m.University of Arkansas researchers will use radar technology and work with outside experts to monitor any environmental effects of a large new hog farm on the “fairly pristine” Big Creek watershed, the group told a packed-house crowd Tuesday. About 150 […]

  Governor’s Conference on Tourism Should Address C & H Hog Farms Impacts on Buffalo National River, Local Economy Coalition Opposed to Factory Hog Farm to Join Rally Outside Conference   On March 11, Arkansas’ Governor Beebe will speak at the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism. Simultaneously, outside the conference, […]

National Parks Conservation Association Park Advocate Magazine Posted on: March 3 2014nn State of Arkansas Wastes Taxpayer Money in Flawed Water Monitoring Study By Emily Jones, Senior Program Manager, Southeast Region The fight to protect the Buffalo National River from an industrial hog farm continues to twist and turn, much […]