EPA paints a bullseye on the livestock industry

Reports that the Environmental Protection Agency has painted a bullseye on the livestock industry are not exaggerated. That’s according to the chief environmental counsel for the National Pork Producers Council, Michael Formica. In an interview with Brownfield at the recent World Pork Expo, Formica didn’t mince words when discussing what he calls EPA’s “unprecedented level of assault on American agriculture.” Formica accuses the EPA of “bold-faced lies” in its dealings with ag groups, and he confirms that CAFOs—and the livestock industry in general—are EPA’s number one enforcement priority, “even more than leaking oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico.”

AUDIO: Michael Formica (3 min MP3)