From: JFAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:20:38 -0800
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The All-Important Step 2 -- Writing our legislators!
Dear JFAN Supporter,
In our 5-step Campaign to Regain Local Control of hog confinements, Step 1, Signing the Petition, was a huge success. The 2,000+ signatures you provided had a great impact when we delivered them in Des Moines!
Now it's time for the most important action of all: Step 2--Writing Letters to Legislators. Please come to a quick, one-hour meeting Thursday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fairfield Middle School at Fillmore and Sixth St. We have all the materials to make it easy and painless for you to write brief, personal letters to key legislators at the meeting. You'll have bullet points and 3 sample letters you can draw on.
We hear it from all over: Legislators DO pay attention to their mail! We can directly influence the Iowa legislature with masses of personal, hand-written letters. In these letters we'll simply be expressing our concerns about hog confinements and asking the lawmakers to support local control of hog confinements in Iowa. Local control was taken from us by the Iowa legislators in the 90's and only they can give it back. We are asking them to produce and pass legislation that will give Iowa counties control over the final approval process for the siting of hog confinements within their borders.
Excerpts of two videos on factory farms will also be shown: And On This Farm, filmed in Lincoln Township, Missouri, discusses the economics of confinements and their impact on the environment and quality of life. The Pig Picture contains investigative footage of what a hog factory farm can be like. Both videos will really open your eyes to the problems with factory farms. They provide the best way to understand what’s going on without having to travel around the state and and go into confinements yourself.
Please make every effort to attend this meeting and get your letters written! As with the petition, our success depends entirely on our numbers. Let's jolt our legislators out of their comfort zones with another massive impact!
Directions to the Middle School: Go south on Main Street and turn right (west) on Fillmore. The school is at the corner of 6th and Fillmore.
See you then! Please bring a pen.
Sincerely,
JFAN Board
Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors, Inc.
P.O. Box 811
Fairfield, IA 52556
641-209-1600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.jfaniowa.org <http://www.jfaniowa.org>
A review of JFAN's 5-step Campaign to Regain Local Control
In addition to providing financial grants for several local legal cases, JFAN has a 5-step plan to educate state legislators about hog confinements and persuade them to pass legislation giving counties local control of confinement siting:
1. Recruiting signatures for a petition asking for a moratorium on construction of large confined animal feeding operations. DONE! 2,000+ collected!
2. A letter-writing campaign to state officials urging a return to local control on siting of CAFOs. Attend the Feb 9 meeting!
3. The JFAN Board will be contacting government officials in all towns in Jefferson County asking them to support a return to local control.
4. Production of a video documentary showing the many negative effects (health, economics, environment, etc.) of CAFOs. This video will be used in an attempt to convince legislators of the need to return to local control or put a moratorium into effect.
5. If necessary, present the degradation of quality of life caused by CAFOs to a national audience via the national media.
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