Senator Mike Bernskoetter, the new Chair of the Senate Ag Committee, sponsored and is advancing a bill (Senate Bill 391) that will strip Local Control from rural counties, taking away our right to protect our farms, families, water and air, communities and property rights from the negative impacts of corporate-controlled industrial livestock operations.
SB 391 would negate all existing health ordinances in 20 rural counties (that have been passed by local, elected representatives) AND stop any county from passing a new ordinance in order to protect the health and welfare of their citizens.
The sad truth is that Missouri’s Department of Natural Resources will not protect us.
Here are just a few reasons why:
This is why it is imperative we protect Local Control; it’s the only way for us to protect ourselves from corporate factory farms.
And CAFOs are targeting Missouri. Pipestone Systems, LLC said in a public meeting that the reason they are targeting Missouri is because we are a “clean state”, i.e we don’t have the animal disease and dirty water problems that plague states with CAFOs.
Please call and email your Senator TODAY by finding them or looking them up here:
https://www.senate.mo.gov/2019-senator-listing-2/
https://www.senate.mo.gov/legislator-lookup/
Tell them to STOP Senate Bill 391, and protect local control and the right of local elected representatives to protect family farms, rural citizens, our air, water & property rights from the negative impacts of factory farms. Government is best when it’s closest to the people.
The sad fact is our Department of Natural Resources will not protect us from the negative impacts of CAFOs.