“ATTACKING AGRICULTURE” has hit your neighborhood. The New York Times has published another article attacking agriculture. This time, they give a false view of what the livestock industry is doing to provide a safe food supply for you, our consumers. Click here to read more.

In this op-ed piece, they try to "scare" their readers into believing all livestock farms pollute the environment. They forget to mention that livestock operations are regulated not only by state governments, but by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well.

The goal of the article was to drive readers into checking out a website they claim "allows users to track the proliferation of factory farms by state and county." I checked out their website, and it was full of misleading information. When I checked out my county on their site, it claimed we had 18 factory farms that were polluting the environment. Our county does not have factory farms that are polluting the environment. We have modern livestock facilities in our county, but they are permitted by the State and regulated by the state, they are all ZERO DISCHARGE FACILITIES, which means they DO NOT POLLUTE the environment.

What upset me the most was the way the article leads viewers to believe all farms included on the list pollute the environment. Their numbers give a false image of modern agriculture. The sad fact is, activists can “pretty up” the numbers for their benefit and they are never held accountable.