Nine new CAFO's in Jefferson County alone!? That don't sound too good for the quality of life in Jefferson.
________________________________ From: "'Rick Archer' r...@searchsummit.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>; fairfieldc...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 11:03 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] JFAN Annual Meeting From: Diane Rosenberg <j...@lisco.com> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 6:36 PM To: Diane Rosenberg <j...@lisco.com> Subject: In Just Two Weeks... "We are fighting for what we really want, not just the best that can be negotiated in Washington"- Wenonah Hauter WENONAH HAUTER CHARLIE SPEER & RICHARD MIDDLETON It's Time To Change 'Business As Usual' Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. Annual Meeting Wednesday, October 15 at 7:30 pm Fairfield Arts & Convention Center WENONAH HAUTER *Food & Water Watch Executive Director * Leading national food and farm activist * Author of Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America *25+ years advocating for food, water, and energy issues Iowa is overrun with hog confinements. Wenonah Hauter will speak on the enormous influence agribusiness has on developing US agricultural policies that overwhelmingly favor industrial livestock production. Fair? Heck no. Hauter will address what Iowans must do to reverse this situation, transforming "business as usual" into a fair, sustainable system - "business that benefits all." Plus Nationally Renowned Environmental Attorneys Return CHARLIE SPEER · RICHARD MIDDLETON *Award-winning environmental litigators * Winners of multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements against CAFO owners and their integrators (corporate suppliers) * 15+ years representing clients harmed by nearby CAFOs Nine new CAFOs are under construction in Jefferson County, and Southeast Iowa is hit with many more. Charlie Speer, Richard Middleton, and David E. Sykes - JFAN's new president - will present an important report on this serious threat. Find out why the numbers of CAFOs aren't higher in Jefferson County and what is being done to deter additional development in the area. Dr. John Ikerd, renowned agricultural economist and JFAN Board Member emcees the meeting. We thank our community partners Leopold Group Sierra Club, solar Powered KRUU 100.1 FM, Little Village Magazine and Radish Magazine for co-sponsoring this event. Admission is free, however a donation of $5 is welcome to support JFAN's mission. Thank you to all our corporate sponsors Aeron Lifestyle Technology · Blue Fish · Bob and Kay Ferguson Shaklee Distributors · Centerpoint Investment Strategies · David E. Sykes, PC · Fairfield Accounting Services · Global ID Group · Green Building Supply · Green Gourmet · Leopold Group Sierra Club · Maharishi Ayurveda Products International · The Organic and Non-GMO Report · Radiance Dairy · Radiant Health Imaging · The Raj · Socially Responsible Agricultural Project · Tim Hawthorne and Laya Schaetzel-Hawthorne To be added to the JFAN email list, type SUBSCRIBE in the Subject Line and hit return. To unsubscribe from the JFAN email list, hit reply, type REMOVE in the Subject Line and hit return. JFAN never sells or shares its email list. Thank you! Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. PO Box 811 Fairfield, IA 52556 www.jfaniowa.org 641-209-6600
