According to a report published last year by a Minneapolis-based advocacy group, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, large operations are typically flanked by lagoons of liquid manure that contain about 400 volatile organic compounds (including hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and methane), as well as pesticides and potentially disease-causing microbes. An EPA study last year identified concentrations of manure as ranking "among the greatest threats to our nation's waters and drinking water supplies."
...In recent years a number of communities have banned large hog facilities, and states including North Dakota and Nebraska have enacted or strengthened restrictions on corporate farming. Agribusiness, in turn, has sought out ever more remote locations; the institute's report found that companies often locate large-scale farming operations in poor communities and on reservations. The document cited the Rosebud venture as an example of "pollution shopping."
Excerpt from MotherJones.com March/April 2001 article "Hog Heaven?"
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Judge says hog-farm lease valid (10 June 2003 Rapid City Journal)
Hog farm is in legal limbo (6 June 2003 Argus Leader)
Tribe seeks halt to hog farm suit (10 May 2003)
Rosebud tribe seeks hog-farm closure (18 April2003)
Victory on Rosebud!!! (6 March 2003)
Ah-ho My Relations,
I am excited and pleased to announce that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe just voted in Council to begin the process of evicting the Bell Farms/Hormel company and closing down the pig factory! This is the next crucial step in our long struggle to close down and clean up the horrible pig factory and redeem the land. And although the effort is not yet complete, this action by the tribe shows clearly that a light now shines at the end of the tunnel and we can anticipate the day when the lands and sovereignty will be restored to the people of Rosebud. In addition to passing this resolution the tribe has also retained Washington D.C. attorney Jim Dougherty to pursue the closing and to insure Bell/Hormell/BIA is help accountable for the distruction they have caused on the land.
Thank you to everyone involved for the support they have given to the grassroots effort to close the Pig factory down. This victory is extra sweet because it was done by our people organizing on the very grassroots level, I could not be more proud of them. A wopila/Victory dinner is being planned for next Saturday the 15th, at Digman Hall in St.Francis. No pig will be served but the people will celebrate! See you there.
Carter Camp,
Rosebud
U.S. Supreme Court won't hear hog case Rapid City Journal (25 Feb 2003)
Victory on Rosebud!!! (24 Feb 2003)
Ah-HO My Relations,
I just received the news that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and against the Bell Farms/Hormel pig factory! At this moment my heart is filled with gladness for this great victory that has been won by the grassroots efforts of people who care about our land. This is a vindication of those brave people who fought a long battle against the money and power of Hormel and Bell Farms to save their homelands. This is proof that the teachings of our old ones about our duty to the earth has not been lost among the people. This is a great victory for our people and I cannot tell you all how much I appreciate all the support you have given to the struggle to protect our sacred water, our clean and sacred air and our land that holds the dust of our honored ancestors. Thank you my people, my relations...
Weebla-ha, Carter Camp, Rosebud.
The battle is not over yet but now the writing is now clearly on the wall for Hormel/Bell... LEAVE! Shut down, clean up, and leave. CC
Rosebud hog farm owner seeks standing in Supreme Court --
Scheduling Conference set for February 21 Hazel Bonner (21 Feb 2003)
New regulations may not affect Rosebud hog farms Rapid City Journal (21 Dec 2002)
Hog farm battle reaches Supreme Court Aberdeen News (19 Nov 2002)
Trouble with a Capital "P" : Pigs in Indian Country Tracy Basile, Concious Choice (6 August 2002)
Legal Battle On Rosebud Hog Farm Far From Over (26 August 2002)
August 17 update from Carter Camp
August 15 update from Carter Camp -- Appeals Court Rejects Sun Prairie's Petition
July 18 and April 25th updates from Carter Camp
Position Statement on the Rosebud Farms Pork Production Facility and the hog farm known as the Grassy Knoll Production site
Rosebud President explains litigation on hog farm production facilities June 21-28 2002, Lakota Journal
1 June 2002 Spiritual Gathering flyer Efforts to gather our Lakota Nations to close down the hog farm. PDF format.
Ex-Governor Pig Farmer May 23, 2002
Appeals court overturns order that let huge hog farm operate offsite article 26 April 2002
Rosebud Hog Wrangle by Jerry Wilson, published in South Dakota Magazine Sept/Oct 2000 issue
Rosebud Sioux Tribe Resolution No. 2000-01 January 5, 2000 resolving to determine legality of contracts with Bell Farms, a full Environmental Impact Study be conducted and completed by BIA, no further expansion be taken until after (1) and (2) etc. PDF format.
RSTC Meeting August 12, 1998, page 07, Motion for a referendum vote on the hog issue and BIA projected Environmental Findings
Rosebud Sioux Tribe Resolution No. 98-92 April 15, 1998, authorizing continuing development of Pork Production facility. PDF format.
Hog Factory in the Back Yard Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy report on Hog Farms, including a good bit of information about the Bell Farm at Rosebud.
Links
Hog Heaven? Members of South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux tribe don't like the smell of their latest economic development project.
offsite article March/April 2001 at MotherJones.com
Tribe Opposes Hog Farm Expansion offsite article 22 June 2000
Facts about Pollution from Livestock Farms Natural Resources Defense Council
Air Pollution from Factory Farms Sierra Club
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