Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable

Washington Post by David A. Fahrenthold | Mar. 1, 2010 (Special Report)

Nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, this is irony: The United States has reduced the manmade pollutants that left its waterways dead, discolored and occasionally flammable. Full Story »

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Aimee deChambeau
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 by Aimee deChambeau - Mar. 3, 2010

In recent decades, livestock raising has shifted to a smaller number of large farms. At these places, with thousands of hogs or hundreds of thousands of chickens, the old self-contained cycle of farming — manure feeds the crops, then the crops feed the animals — is overwhelmed by the large amount of waste.

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