In spite of the low marks Joe Biden earned from progressive groups
during the primaries — including an “F
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/05/sanders-scores-highest-mark-sunrise-movements-climate-report-card-while-biden-told>”
from the Sunrise Movement and a “C+
<https://centeractionfund.org/environmental-report-card/>” from the
Center for Biological Diversity — the Biden campaign closed out the
presidential race on climate-high notes, running ads featuring farmers
impacted by climate change inMichigan
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6XDlwIoA5E&ab_channel=JoeBiden>andArizona
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCfkYGpkRz0&ab_channel=JoeBiden>.
To deliver on that campaign rhetoric, public health researchers and
organizers working with agricultural communities say the upcoming Biden
administration must take action to protect the air, water, land and
health of rural communities overrun and bankrupted by factory farms. In
addition to generating an estimated10
<https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions>to15
percent <https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-5/>of
globalgreenhouse gas emissions
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012019/climate-change-agriculture-farming-consolidation-corn-soybeans-meat-crop-subsidies>,
industrial agricultureproduces pollutants
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25012019/climate-change-agriculture-farming-consolidation-corn-soybeans-meat-crop-subsidies>that
disproportionately sicken low-income communities and communities of
color by exposing them totoxic chemicals
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672924/>like ammonia and
nitrate.
Maria Payan is a Delaware resident who used to live in Pennsylvania’s
York County. After the farmers across the street sold their property to
an industrial poultry operation, her family began to get sick. “At one
point, I was pulling my son out of the bathtub and rushing him to
emergency care, because he would have blisters all over his body when he
got out of the water,” she told/Truthout./And that wasn’t all. Her son
regularly threw up when he got off the school bus and took a breath of
air, which smelled of chicken dung. Payan’s family decided to move away,
but it was all but impossible to sell the family home. “Who wants to
move next to an area where you can’t even go outside and breathe without
vomiting?
https://truthout.org/articles/factory-farms-are-poisoning-rural-communities-will-biden-take-on-this-crisis/?eType=EmailBlastContent
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