Citizens for Safe Farming promotes environmentally safe agriculture for the health of Vermont and Vermonters
Expert Research

Articles:

Small Farms Sustaining Agriculture, by Patricia Cottingham September/October 2004

Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture by Wendell Barry
SeptemberlOctober 2004


A recently filed brief regarding national standards for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs PDF Format)

Summary of a study on air emissions by Large Farm Operations
(National Air Emissions Study, March 5, 2004 - PDF Format)

NRDC Report on Vermont LFOs and Pollution, (December 1988, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Clean Water Network)

Cesspools of Shame: How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health, (July 2001, Robbin Marks, NRDC)

America's Animal Factories: How States Fail to Prevent Pollution from Livestock Waste.  Executive Summary (December 1987, NRDC)

American Public Health Association Calls for Precautionary Moratorium on New CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations), (American Public Health Association, Association News, July 2003)

CAFOs' Negative Affect on Neighboring Land:  Impairment of Use, Enjoyment and Property Values (By John A. Kilpatrick, The Appraisal Journal 2001)

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