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MRCC says CAFO bill does not respect local control

The Missouri Rural Crisis Center is disappointed the state Senate has advanced a bill protecting CAFOs from county regulations that are stricter than state regulations. Tim Gibbons tells Brownfield Ag News, “We know that DNR cannot and will not protect us from these absentee controlled operations so local control is one way that farmers and people in rural counties have been able to put safeguards on these type of operations to protect the property rights, the property values, the water and air, the livablity of our communities from industrial livestock operations.”

Tim Gibbons tells Brownfield there is a “huge outpouring” of opposition to the bill because Missourians value local control.

He says the voices of independent farmers and property owners in Missouri are not as valued in the Capitol as corporate lobbyists working for industrial agriculture.

The Senate gave initial approval to the CAFO bill (SB 391) Monday and a final vote is expected this week. If passed, it would then go to the Missouri House.