A proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in Burnett County, Wisconsin, is slated to house 26,000 hogs and produce millions of gallons of liquid manure every year. Residents fear the irreparable damage a facility of that size could do to their air, land, and waterways, as well as to their property values and the local economy, and many fear there’s nothing they can do to stop it. As part of TRNN’s special collaboration with In These Times magazine for “The Wisconsin Idea,†TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez traveled with Cameron Granadino (TRNN) and Hannah Faris (In These Times) to Burnett and Polk counties to speak with farmers and residents in the area about their underreported struggle to protect their communities from the factory farming industry. In this interview, we speak with local farmer and beekeeper Kristy Lynn Allen about the damage the industrialization of farming has done to agriculture in general, and about the damage the new CAFO would do specifically to farmers like her. Allen is the founder of The Beez Kneez, LLC, and serves as president of the local chapter of the Wisconsin Farmers Union. #BigAgriculture #Farming #IndependentFarmers #FactoryFarming #Rural
Pre-production:
Maximillian Alvarez
Simon Davis-Cohen
Hannah Faris
Cameron Granadino
Studio:
Cameron Granadino
Stephen Frank
Post-production:
Cameron Granadino
Stephen Frank
Kayla Rivara
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Time to go back to our roots…grassroots!!!
This is just a particular view of particular people in a particular location.
Over a decade or so, however, I have heard many particular views from many particular people with their own specialised trade or professional interests and experiences discussing agriculture, ecology, transport and logistical infrastructure, banking & finance, and a fraying social fabric.
Now, I have developed a particular view based on the particular sources I have come across and been impressed by: I have the view that we are running on Autopilot to a comprehensive systems failure, the implications of which will make genocide look like just a bad temper tantrum on the part of some ideologues.
Some small farmers and comprehensively capable country folk will survive, or virtually no one will.
Check out Via Campesina's (International Peasant Movement) boycott of the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit and why they're boycotting. By all means, support these folks in Wisconsin, but remember, the big boys are *transnational*.
What the plan is with the prisons and the CAFOs is to turn rural areas into giant slave plantations using prison labor.
WOW. I'm blown away by this interview. This person is doing her best to just live a productive, simple life.
And look what she has to go through just to breathe clean air, grow clean food, and drink clean water.
Finally the real fruits of globalisation is hitting home. This devastation of farmers and their centuries long economy has taken place in India for 30 years … Imagine the number of farmers in India … Game over yankee doodle 🇺🇸👎ðŸ½ðŸ•³ï¸
A white woman who is the beneficiary of stolen land is speaking about intrusion. Yeah right
What happened to the original natives of this Continent North America? This story is a complete joke!
Just like it did the copperskin humans original to this land!
That's an algae growers dream
Capitalism sucks. There is no regard for the future of the planet or even of the species!
Africa has had next to zero vaccines. Honor our ancestors and ensure the have access to the vaccine
I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF BILL GATES WAS BEHIND THIS. HE'S THE LARGEST FARMLAND OWNER IN AMERICA. EVENTUALLY WE WILL HAVE TO BOW DOWN TO HIM IF WE WANT TO EAT.
People like this are why we are here today.
Fuck factory farms buy from local sustainable farms. Also keep in mind that honeybees are non native and compete with native bees that are vital to our agriculture as well as our ecology. She has the right idea and she’s 95% there.
Right to Farm? Sounds more like Right to Pollute. Big Ag is destroying the world. Also, humans need to consume was less animals and their by-products.
Plus, the CAFOs are horrendous for the animals. There is a reason Ag-Gag laws have been passed.
Government supports the corporations and lets the small family farms fail. Every communist government ever knows you must control the food. 1 one company controls all the land, its easy to pay them not to plant crops.
SOILANT GREEN COMING TO YOUR STORES SOON AS THEY GRIND UP VXX PASSERS AND SERVE THEM TO YOU
The farmers must unite and fight this corrupt corporations because they will destroy the environment
Does this apply to those Black Farmers, who have been denied any assistance, 🤔 O' let's NOT leave out those Black communities " cancer alley" where China been spewing animal & chemical waste for decades. now " As the 🌎turns" we crying now 😷