March 10, 2010

America has done a creditable job at reducing manmade pollutants over the last 40 years, but it is falling way behind on one: farm animal manure. In the old days, small farms could recycle their manure over their own fields. Now, megafarms produce megapoop but don’t have megafields to spread it on. The government tries to set standards, but the way this works is that the megafarms’ lobbyists object, using “the small family farms” as their human shield against further regulation.

You know you just have to see the picture.