CAFOs

The Sierra Club of Michigan is asking the Ann Arbor Environmental Commission for its help in fighting the problems of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, in the state. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert reports.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, are a significant part of the American food and agricultural systems in Michigan and around the country. We knew CAFOs posed hazards to the environment, but a new report indicates it is worse than previously thought. WEMU's David Fair and Michigan League of Conservation Voters executive director, Lisa Wozniak, spoke with one of the authors of the report, Katie Garvey. She is a staff attorney with the Environmental Law and Policy Center, and she discussed the troubling findings in the center’s 2024 report.

Concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, are areas where livestock are kept and fed indoors. One cow will produce 20 times the waste as a human…