Advocacy Toolkit Against Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This toolkit gives you the resources that you need to “Watchdog” Missouri CAFOs for regulatory violations, environmental concerns, and various other CAFO activities which impact human, animal, and economic well-being. As a Watchdog, you can use the resources in ‘Documenting and Reporting Concerns’ to gather information about CAFO activities and share this information with the agencies responsible for addressing these concerns. You may use the resources in ‘Requesting Public Records’ to access more information about CAFO facilities in your area – like size, manure production, owner/operator, violation history – by contacting state and federal agencies. Finally, ‘Writing Public Comments’ gives you resources to advocate against CAFO expansion by submitting your comments on proposed permit applications and proposed rules that regulate CAFO activities in Missouri.

MCE hopes to expand and improve this toolkit over time. We welcome your feedback on how to make these resources more accessible and effective for our CAFO Watchdogs to engage in advocacy! Please contact our Agricultural Policy Associate Sophie Watterson at [email protected] with any questions and comments about the toolkit.

You can also access our CAFOs Ladder of Advocacy resource for other ways to take action by visiting here.

Sign up here to join our CAFO Advocacy Network to help respond to time-sensitive CAFO advocacy needs that we track! Together, we can support a healthy, safe, sustainable, equitable food system!

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Table of Contents

Download the complete Toolkit in PDF form here.

1. Documenting and Reporting Concerns
   1. 1. 1. Documenting Concerns
            1. 1.  Algal Blooms
               2.  Discolored and/or Foul-Smelling Water
               3.  Fish Kills
               4.  Well Water Contamination
         2. Reporting Concerns
         3. Additional Concerns
         4. Additional Reporting Resources
2. Requesting Public Records
   1. 1. 1.  Public Record Requests
         2.  Missouri Sunshine Law Request Template
         3.  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Template
3. Writing Public Comments
   1. 1. 1.  Writing Public Comments
         2. Comment Letter Template for CAFO Permits
         3. Comment Letter Template for Proposed Rules
         4. Appealing Permit Decisions

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Downloadable PDFs are located at the top, within each table of contents item.