Two citizen groups engaged in legal battles with factory farms are in great need of financial donations to pay their litigation costs. Factory farms house thousands of confined poultry and livestock that may never stand in sunshine or eat a blade of grass. Prairie Rivers Network is not a plaintiff in these cases, but we want to let our members and subscribers know about this opportunity to make a difference. {Continue Reading »}

Factory Farm Buildings with Large Sewage Lagoons

Prairie Rivers Network is broadening our clean water work by initiating a new campaign called the Illinois Factory Farm Watch. Factory farms, also known as confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), house thousands of livestock and poultry in buildings or feedlots for the purpose of mass meat, egg, or dairy production. Factory farms generate huge amounts of sewage which is stored in underground pits, man-made lagoons, or dumped into huge manure piles. Waterways become contaminated during storms when rain carries sewage into the water. {Continue Reading »}