Friends of Rural New York

The photographer became physically ill from taking these pictures.

“I had to shower the minute I got home and I can still taste it in my
mouth and smell it on my skin.  Pounding headache.”

See:
http://cafohell.blogspot.com/
Another day in CAFO hell

Well- yeah it is. How come those harlots in the Department of Ag and Markets, Cornell University and the NYS Legislature spend so much of our money supporting New York’s CAFOs????????????????????????

March 26, 2007
New York Times Editorial
Mr. Puck’s Good Idea

From time to time, consumers are reminded of the power they have, and the power of the choices they make. There is no better example than the rising popularity of organic food — a matter of conscience and of taste. More and more people are buying local, organic produce and trying to find meat and eggs and dairy products from farms that are not part of the horror of factory farming.

Not surprisingly, people who shop that way also like to dine out that way. That will now be easier thanks to Wolfgang Puck, the universal restaurateur. He has decided that his culinary businesses will now use products only from animals raised under strict humane standards.

Mr. Puck is not the first chef and restaurateur to decide to forgo factory-farmed meat and eggs. You can find a few restaurants upholding these standards in nearly every major American city. But Mr. Puck runs an empire, not a restaurant. His outreach is enormous, and so is his potential educational impact. In fact, he has come late to this decision, perhaps because it affects a corporation, not the menu of a single restaurant.

For one thing, Mr. Puck’s new standard will help correct a misimpression. Many diners assume that most of the cruelty in factory farming lies in producing foie gras and veal. But Americans consume vastly more chicken, turkey, pork and beef than foie gras and veal, and most of the creatures those meats come from are raised in ways that are ethically and environmentally unsound. Until recently, most Americans have been appallingly ignorant of how their food is produced. That is changing. And Mr. Puck’s gift for showmanship will help advance Americans’ knowledge that they can eat well and do right all at the same time.

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

$1,000,000 given to THREE Dairy Farms in Eden, New York
What does $1,005,210.00 of your hard earned tax dollars buy in Eden, New York?
See:
http://cafohell.blogspot.com

Boil water order for village of Cayuga, part of Aurelius

A boil water order issued Saturday in the village of Cayuga and part of Aurelius (water district #3) remains in effect.

The order was prompted by murkiness, or high turbidity, caused by runoff and snowmelt in the village’s water source, Cayuga Lake. Village officials hand-delivered boil water notices to some 300 households (roughly 1,000 users) Saturday.

Cayuga Elementary School is using single service beverage and bottled water. The Cayuga County health department has asked customers to conserve water to reduce use of the village water plant’s operation. Until further notice, boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and preparing food.

QUESTIONS:

WHY DOESN"T THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TEST TO FIND OUT WHAT IS IN THAT WATER AND WHERE IT CAME FROM?
What kind of runoff? Maybe manure?????????????????????????????????????????????????

Friends, here’s a new blog site that covers the
extensive CAFO-generated pollution in Eden, NY.
Photographs tell this story to the world-wide web.

http://cafohell.blogspot.com/