1 Wed May 01 2002 - 07:35:39
Name: Vic Bird
Email: VJBJAB@ccrtc.com
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Comments: I live in a small rural area along with about 32 other single family homes. Nestled right along side of us is a 1000 head HOG CAFO. It stinks approximately 20% of the calendar year....to the point of giving us headaches, requiring us to go inside. This is not fair to the health of the neighbors, the reduced property values of the neighborhood and the stolen rights to enjoy your own property! What can we do? How can we just shut them down?

2 Fri March 22 2002 - 16:12:35
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@farmerstel.com
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Comments: Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens Quarterly meeting Thursday March 28th 7:00 PM Henagar AL Wright's Stake House and Restaurant near the intersection of Hwy 40 and Hwy 75. Dinner at 6:00 – 7:00 This meeting will recape our work for this past last year. We will introduce and Vote on our new Board of Directors. Awards will be given for leadership and a special award for journalism granted to Rick Thomason of the Huntsville Times. This awarded is given for opinions both public and privet, for insightful concepts above and beyond the average Morlock poop shoveler, for enjoying the thrill of dropping a deserving elected official on the front burner to hear them sizzle, and for the game winning slam dunk on Alfa. Granted only to those that have exceeded all expectations of their public duty, even in Alabama and to the writer that has risen above the "I'll kick 'em in the mouth but do it nicely" mentality. We hope to have some elected official as honored guest. We will report on organization finances. There will be an outline of a project for September. Hope you can make it!

3 Wed February 20 2002 - 20:35:28
Name: Shane Hulsey
Email: floodstage@hotmail.com
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Comments: Just wanted to let you know that if there is anything I can do for your organization I would be happy to do it. I paddle on Sand Mountain dozens of times a year, and would love to do anything I can to improve the water quality of the creeks on Sand Mountain. Thanks, Shane Hulsey, Environmental Educator Cahaba River Society

4 Sun February 17 2002 - 15:57:49
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@farmerstel.com
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Comments: A Public Hearing for HB402 (corresponding SB79) has been scheduled for Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 1:30 pm. This hearing will give the public an opportunity to voice concerns, alternatives, and opposition to the "Family Farm Preservation Act". I hope that everyone with an opinion of this bill will be able to attend and speak. The environmental community's voice on this issue has been reaching the public through various media outlets; now is our chance to convince the representatives on the committee that this bill is bad for the residents of Alabama. Make your oppinion known. Send Alfa a message that the people of Alabama are not sheep. We will not allow Alfa and Agri-Corporations destroy rural Alabama.

5 Mon February 04 2002 - 00:25:12
Name: Ed Scheirer
Email: ednpj@hotmail.com
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Comments: It just wouldn't be fair NOT to expose you to this information because I know you care about your family and the children all around you. Please take time to read it. It could change or save some lives. You are entitled to know this information. INDOOR POLLUTION SEMINAR Create a Safe and Healthy Home KNOW YOUR A.B.C`s. by Dr. Joyce M. Woods * Begin by thinking of your home as a toxic waste dump. The average home today contains 62 toxic chemicals - more than a chemistry lab at the turn of the century. More than 72,000 synthetic chemicals have been produced since WW II. Less than 2% of all synthetic chemicals have been tested for toxicity, mutagenic and carcinogenic effects, or birth defects. A majority of chemicals have never been tested for long-term effects. An EPA survey concluded that indoor air was 3 to 70 times more polluted than outdoor air. Another EPA study stated that the toxic chemicals in household cleaners are 3 times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air. CMHC reports that houses today are so energy efficient that "out-gassing" of chemicals has no where to go, so it builds up inside the home. We spend 90% of our time indoors, and 65% of that time at home. Moms, infants and the elderly spend 90% of their time in the home. The National Cancer Association released results of a 15-year study concluding that women who work in the home are at a 54% higher risk of developing cancer than women who work outside the home. Cancer rates have almost doubled since 1960. Cancer is the Number ONE cause of death for children. There has been a 26% increase in breast cancer since 1982. Breast cancer is the Number ONE killer of women between the ages of 35 and 54. Primary suspects are laundry detergents, household cleaners and pesticides. There has been a call from the U.S./ Canadian Commission to ban bleach in North America. 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6 Sat January 26 2002 - 19:40:49
Name: June Weldon
Email: eweldon@farmerstel.com
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Comments: The fat lady sang off key ,so we are all still bogged down in pig poop I realy thought our problems were ending I have been waiting so long for an end to this fiasco, I have no hope of any kind of future and there are thousands of others that are in the same predicament I truly feel sorry for them I dont think this is a free country any more when we are at the mercey of the corporations and we the people are not winning our court cases, regardless of our suffering, is this a lost cause ? I am truly pi#### off hog warrior, I need a crying towel, there is so much evil Maybe ENRON will open pandoras box and all these corpoations will have to give an acount of all there dealings. Did some one mention Tyson,-- Smithfeild,--and who is next ,will they tumble like dominos. Pray for peace. JUNE

7 Tue January 22 2002 - 02:28:14
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: In the new session of the Alabama Legislature Senator Tom Butler has re-introduce the deceptively named "Family Farm Preservation Act", Senate Bill 79. SB79 is intended not to preserve the independent family farms whose numbers are in steep decline but to protect the corporate farming operations which have put so many independent family farms out of business. ALFA is behind this plot! ALFA, not Senator Butler, wrote the farm bill that exempt corporate hog operations from legal action by those whose lives have been diminished by its existence. The ALFA Farmers Federation points out that family farms need protection because suburbs are expanding into traditional agriculture communities and taking legal action to move family farms out of the way. AFF can't seem to find any example of this in Alabama but they ask you to take this leap of faith and except whatever they say as fact. Don't believe it! When lawsuits raged across Alabama against corporate hog operations for their destruction of air quality, water quality, and social stability, corporations stopped construction of seven large-scale hog operations planed for Jackson County alone. If SB79 becomes law Alabama can expect a surge of new large-scale corporate hog operations and the many problems that come with them. To help protect our rivers and streams and our way of life in Jackson and Dekalb County write or call Senators Barron (334-242-7858) P.O. Box 65 Fyffe, AL 35971 and Senator Preuitt (334-242-7898) P.O. Box 1063 Talladega, AL 35161. Let them know you oppose this bill that puts corporate hog operation's rights above those of an average citizen. This bill has 18 Senate sponsors: Butler, Zeb Little, Roberts, Smith, Means, Denton, Holley, Mitchell, Lee, Dial, McClain, Callahan, Waggoner, Enfinger, Dixon, Langford, Figures, and Steele. If you live in one of these Senate districts call and ask them to reconsider. Why should Factory Hog Farms have more rights than Alabama citizens? Wayne Cummins, President, Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens

8 Thu January 17 2002 - 19:20:21
Name: JUNE WELDON
Email: eweldon@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: The fat lady sang YE HAR .Thank you everyone for your hard work and a special thanks to Brenda Ivey

9 Thu January 17 2002 - 19:15:21
Name: JUNE WELDON
Email: ewedon@farmerstel.com
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Comments: The fat lady sang YE HAR Im sure someone will write about this To all the hard workers thank you . Praise the LORD its his world

10 Fri January 11 2002 - 22:09:22
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: In the new session of the Alabama Legislature Senator Butler has re-introduce the deceptively named "Family Farm Preservation Act". The bill is intended not to preserve the family farms whose numbers are in steep decline but to protect the corporate farming operations which have put so many independent family farms out of business. ALFA is behind this plot! The ALFA Farmers Federation points out that family farms need protection because suburbs are expanding into traditional agriculture communities and are taking legal action to move family farming operations out of the way of this expansion. AFF can't seem to find any example of this anywhere in Alabama but they ask you to take this leap of faith and except whatever they say as fact. Don't believe it! In spite of the fact that every major newspaper in Alabama has questioned the wisdom of this bill and hundreds of readers have written letters to editors across the state complaining of ALFA's effort to purchase the law by way of campaign financing. The bill passed the house 89-2. The bill died in the senate with the help of wise men who could not allow such undermining of public trust, passing a questionable constitutional challenge, or voting contrary to the desires of their constitutes. We can't say this for the House. This must raise the question of how the Alabama House of Representatives could almost unanimously vote to make this bill a law. The answer is simple, ALFA money! How did your repesentitive vote? Wayne Cummins, President, SMCC

11 Mon December 10 2001 - 05:10:56
Name: Terri
Email: trsprs@frontiernet.net
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Comments: I came upon this site while watching a show about Sand Mountain music. I live in southern Alabama. Not born here but my husband was born and raised here and I've had the pleasure of living in this great state for almost 10 yrs now. What I've seen this evening on television about the music and the people is just so wonderful. Tonight they showed me a part of Alabama that I wasnt aware that existed. The simplicity and the beauty. Such a beautiful place. To see such a place destroyed my polution is so troubling to me. When will society say ENOUGH? When will we stop? When it is all gone? Alabama Public Television has done a wonderful job of showing the heritage of Sand Mountain. To see that such a place still exists is wonderful. How much longer will this place exist? I was very impressed by the people and the place. The kind of place and people that all the world should honor. I wish you all luck in your stuggle to preserve Sand Mountain. God Bless You.

12 Thu November 29 2001 - 23:45:04
Name: June Weldon
Email: eweldon@farmerstel.com
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Comments: Dear Editor: I complained to the Dekalb County Health Department about the infestation of flies by phone and mail more than a week and a half ago, and I still have no response. I followed up with a letter to the Health Department and still no response. The Health Department did come to Ider, but did not come to any of our homes to see what we were complaining about. They went straight to the hog CAFO'S on County Road 141 stayed just a moment and were gone. It is pretty obvious to me and others that the Health Department knew that the hogs were the cause of the problem. Why have we the people not been informed of the out come? Do we need a Health Department? If they ignore complaints it is our tax dollars that pay them and by LAW we are entitled to an explanation. Same goes for ADEM they were informed and chose not to respond. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE ARE THEY LAZY OR DO THEY THINK WE DON'T COUNT? Still waiting for an answer and just in case you forgot are you just going to fluff off the WW11 Vet and his precious wife who's house was invaded by swarms of germ carrying flies? This is not the house fly as one knows it. These flies are the kind that feed on DEAD flesh and poop. For goodness sake does someone have to become ill and die before you guys do your job? June Weldon, Ider, Al.

13 Fri November 23 2001 - 21:25:30
Name: Willard Jones
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Comments: Dear Editor: Sunday, Nov. 4, I received a call to help a friend that lives within 1/2 mile of two 4,000 head Gold Kist contracted Hog Factories. The elderly couple, an 81 yr WWII Veteran and his wife, were overwhelmed by 100's of large flies inside their home. We caught samples to show the Health Dept. and ADEM. Monday I took live flies to the Health Dept. I explained and showed him the flies. He said he would get someone to investigate as soon as possible. I felt it was urgent, so I ask if it would be today. He said "Oh no, it may not be this week, we will get to it as soon as we can". ADEM did not respond. Nine of this couples neighbor's including 3 WWII Vets, also had flies. Seeing those flies all over the kitchen table, counters, cabinets, ceilings, walls, and lights and the helpless look on my friend's faces was not a pleasant sight. The 8,000 hogs are capable of generating waste equal to the waste of more than 32,000 people. Thanks, I believe to the strong lobbying and influence from ALFA, ADEM did not require a permit to construct and operate these Factories that flush the waste into an open pond. A city generating that much waste would be required to install a waste treatment system. Thanks to ALFA and ADEM, the Corp Hog Factories can flush their waste into an open pond and then spread or spray it on fields. These Hog Factories were built in 1998 in an establised, densely populated community, where 239 families live within 2 miles. When the people complained about the odor and insects, a Gold Kist representative told them "If you don't like it move". I suggest you convince your Elected Officials that they owe their allegiance to you not ALFA. Willard Jones

14 Fri November 23 2001 - 18:56:37
Name: Brenda Ivey
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Comments: Dear Editor: COMPASSION FOR THE YOUNG, THE SENIOR CITIZENS, THE INNOCENT: In our community, human beings are being abused. We live around 8,000 finishing hogs. My son's bedroom was covered with huge buzzing flies on the inside of his windows. According to a reporter, these are the flies you see when looking for a dead body. A couple in our community had just returned from a trip, and went inside their home and found it had been invaded with these same pest. The elderly man is a retired WWII vet and I will never forget the look on his face. He starred at the floor and although he fought in the War in his younger years. He was not able to fight the war of flies. His wife stood crying. This lady's physician in Georgia took one look at the flies and told her, "Those are flies that hatch from dead carcasses." The people who created the problems for our community have family members who have complained about one neighbor having a few hogs and some complained a neighbor with a few hogs were too close to their church. The few hogs didn't stop children from playing outside whenever they wanted. They didn't smell for two plus miles. They didn't leave a trail of pig poop up the road when they were hauled to market. They didn't cause neighbors property values to plummet. They didn't require tons and tons of hog waste to be spread on land over an entire community, Spring, Summer and Fall. With a few hogs, we don't remember Senior Citizens on the other end of a phone line crying, not knowing how to handle the STENCH AND FLIES. Yet we are expected to keep our mouth shut. I am no match with ALFA controlled government agencies, so my Prayer is God have mercy on the innocent and bring justice to the guilty. Thanks Brenda Ivey

15 Mon October 01 2001 - 02:42:16
Name: Brenda Ivey
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Comments: Federal Court Ruling Declares Unpermitted Pork Factories Illegal-- Campaign Against Smithfield Gains Momentum: New Bern, North Carolina-- A coalition of farmers, fisherman, rural activists and environmentalists applauded today a decision by United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard which upheld the right of citizens to sue industrial pork factories for polluting. In rejecting the defendants' motions to dismiss plaintiffs' complaints, the decision in Neuse Riverkeeper, et al. v. Smithfield Foods, Inc. affirmed two important contentions by environmentalists and family farmers who claim that virtually all of Smithfield's pork factories in N.C. are operating illegally. Fist, Judge Howard held that every industrial hog facility requires a Clean Water Act permit to operate. Virtually none of Smithfield's 1,600 hog factories in N.C. currently has such a permit. Under the Clean Water Act, an industrial hog facility is subject to penalties of up to $27,500 for each day that it operates without a permit. Second, the Court held that the unpermitted disposal of factory hog waste on sprayfields is illegal, because "[e]xcluding parts of the waste management system... would compromise the goals of the Clean Water Act by allowing widespread pollution by industrial feedlots pumping waste into other areas of their farms." Virtually all of Smithfields N.C. hog factories currently dispose of their waste on sprayfields. The groups attorney and President of Waterkeeper Alliance, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said "This is an outlaw industry which can only make money by breaking the law. Smithfield deliberately locates its factories in rural states where it can easily dominate state enforcement agencies. This decision puts every pork factory in the country on notice that the Marshall has come to Dodge."

16 Thu September 20 2001 - 14:02:05
Name: Brenda Ivey
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Comments: The Appraisal Journal for July, 2001 carries a great article by John Kilpatrick of Mundy and Associates, the leading real estate appraisal and stigma analysis folks in the US. The article, entitled "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations and Proximate Property Values" finds that property located next to a CAFO is devalued by 50% to 90%. It finds, as other studies have, that value loss is an inverse function of distance, that newer, nicer residences lose more value, and that value loss is a function of property use. It says that a farm that located close to a CAFO will "lose value due to diminished productivity and comparative marketability to other farm lands." It goes on to say that "when appraising a property located proximate to a CAFO, the appraiser needs to consider seven issues." 1. Type of property 2. Distance to CAFO 3. Physical manifestations-i.e., bad air quality, insects, etc. 4. Engineering/scientific testing of air quality 5. Impacts on property use 6. Marketability evidence-time on market of comparable properties 7. Impact on highest and best use.

17 Mon September 10 2001 - 17:35:07
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@farmestel.com
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Comments: In the coming months SMCC will focus on major issues that need to be addressed as we approach a new election year and the 2002 legislative session. One of these topics " Is traditional agriculture threatened with extinction by urbanization?" In the coming weeks I will give you my thoughts on this subject. In short the answer in no, much to everyone's surprise, traditional agriculture is threatened with extinction by corporate agriculture not urbanization! Other subjects we should focus on are: "Is the failure of Alabama to leave the agricultural age the cause of our state economic problems?" "Should some departments of state government which were built during a turn of the century agricultural age be reassembled as Alabama becomes a hi-tech manufacturing center?", "Is ALFA a political economic force that will make efforts to hold Alabama in the economic backwaters of America to maintain a strong hold on state government?" These are very important questions that must be asked. Please give these questions your consideration. The comment in the next section is a speech I recently gave before the Alabama Water Resource Conference. I'm sorry but I can't help the gentleman looking for lollipops! Wayne Cummins, President, SMCC

18 Mon September 10 2001 - 17:04:59
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@farmerstel.com
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Comments: Submitted for presentation at the Alabama Water Resources Conference, September 5, 2001, at Orange Beach, Alabama Author: Wayne Cummins Organization: Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens, Alabama hog Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) citizen watch group. Purpose: To present a citizens' view of current Alabama CAFO regulations and Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM ) actions concerning clean water issues. In 1994 the United States Congress identified agriculture as the number one polluter of America's waterways . Runoff from crops and grazing lands have been identified as major problem area especially in the mid west. Dry Waste Management Systems have been faulted for ground water and surface water quality degradation; however, Liquid Waste Management Systems are without question one of the greatest threats to water quality in rural areas of Alabama and other eastern states. Large-scale hog facilities are one of Alabama's and America's greatest threats to clean surface and ground water. We all want agriculture to succeed. We understand the need for farmers to consolidate. However large corporation and their contracted facilities need to be accountable and responsible for the impact they have on our environment, our communities and their neighbors. It is a grave error for any state to ignore water quality, health concerns and the well being of its citizens just because the violator is agriculture. There is no evidence that traditional agriculture is threatened with extinction by urbanization. This is exemplified by the fact that hundreds of small towns in Alabama's rural countryside coexist with traditional farms inside their city limits. Problems do occur when non-traditional farming operations began construction and operation near any densely populated rural areas. It is our conclusion that only sustainable agriculture methods will support the coexistence of farming-nonfarming rural communities. This sustainability will not allow Confined Animal Feeding Operations using Liquid Waste Management Systems and will minimize the use of Dry Waste Systems within the urbanized areas. In Dekalb County, Alabama aquifers have been damaged, streams polluted and human drinking water sources compromised by hog Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). The Boy Scouts of America has restricted swimming in most Alabama camps built on natural waters due to pollution of those waters. One of these camps in North Alabama restricted guests from swimming due to contamination by a hog CAFO upstream of the camp. ADEM has implemented regulations for CAFOs that meet or exceed federal standards. However, Alabama's CAFO regulations will not protect our waterways and ground water if the number of hog CAFOs in Alabama increase dramatically. ADEM's description of Alabama CAFO regulation guidelines are by their own admission minimum qualifications . North Carolina's regulations and industry agreements exceed federal and most Alabama's CAFO regulation standards, but that has not prevented pollution of the streams of North Carolina before or after Hurricane Floyd. All environmental agencies input to the development of Alabama CAFO regulations was rejected by ADEM. The approach to CAFO regulation guideline development, both at state and federal level, is one of risk assessment. ADEM's working group and stakeholders for regulation development are composed primarily of organizations and state agencies that have risk of industry profits as their highest priority. Thus, guidelines reflect construction methods that minimize costs. For example, there is no requirement for ground water monitoring wells for early warning of ground water contamination near football-field size cesspools, few restrictions for construction in a one hundred year flood plain, and no requirements to impose corporate integrator liability for environmental impacts. Setbacks from streams should be increased especially where sloping terrain imposes greater risk of runoff. Impermeable liners should be required for waste holding ponds in locations where karst features such as sinkholes and cavernous regions are noted by Alabama Department of Geologic Survey . Also, such liners should be required in areas where soil type has little resistance to surface-subsurface hydraulic connection. ADEM does not require public notification of CAFO construction for localities affected. This should be corrected. ADEM says they can move quickly on case-by-case bases to impose more stringent regulation. Of course this would be after damage to streams or aquifers has been done. This spring ADEM fined a Dekalb County hog CAFO for mismanagement of spray fields that resulted in pollution of a nearby stream. The State of South Carolina has outlawed spray fields. Of the 327 CAFOs identified in Alabama, ten percent are hog CAFOs. This ten percent represents less than 1/100 of total receipts for livestock and poultry in the State of Alabama . Yet the problems created by hog CAFOs can easily demand more of ADEM's resources than all other CAFO oversight. As corporate agriculture methods require more taxpayer funds and resources to insure safe food production and environmental protection, corporate liabilities should be imposed by legislative action if necessary. One hog CAFO has the potential for tremendous damage to the environment and the health and well-being of near by residents with a single event occurence. All major environmental organizations and many citizen groups object to the damage that has been done and the potential damage that can be done by hog CAFOs. There is no active organized effort by any environmental organization or citizen group in the State of Alabama to restrain poultry CAFOs. ADEM has, as of this year, become more responsive in the oversight of existing hog operations. For example, ADEM is following up on "citizen reporting" of regulatory violations. Progress is being made, but the risk assessment employed should be more sensitive to the protection of the environment and not weighted to profits of the industry. The concept of self regulation and self reporting of violations has proven time after time to be a failed concept. Regulation and oversight of Liquid Waste Management Systems both for hog farming and other agriculture endeavors will require more citizen involvement as ADEM's budget limits the agency's ability to inspect farming operations. Citizen reporting should be given high priority by the department as citizen watch groups become proficient in determining violations and failure of CAFOs to adhere to expected ADEM standards. A CAFO and water quality "violation hot line" should be developed within the agency and posted on ADEM's web site to include the responsible division or section within the agency, phone numbers, email address, and fax number. We also urge the governor to increase funding for the ADEM to perform needed tasked in all areas of water quality. Conclusion: As human demand for clean water increases, CAFO regulations must impose more stringent rules for surface and ground water protection. Citizen watch groups should become as effective in the area of CAFOs as they have been in monitoring the overall water quality of streams and lakes. Liquid Waste Management Systems are, and will continue to be, a major threat to human drinking water supplies and recreational needs in Alabama.

19 Fri August 31 2001 - 17:20:46
Name: Ken Hale
Email: hale_ken@email.msn.com
Homepage URL: none
Comments: Can you supply me with the address and telephone number of a company in or near Bryant that manufactures lollipops? Thank you. Ken

20 Fri August 31 2001 - 17:20:11
Name: Ken Hale
Email: hale_ken@email.msn.com
Homepage URL: none
Comments: Can you supply me with the address and telephone number of a company in or near Bryant that manufactures lollipops? Thank you. Ken

21 Sat August 04 2001 - 15:56:26
Name: Brenda Ivey
Email: nchandler@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: Dear Editor letter recently published in the Dekalb Advertiser to answer Dr. Johnson's question. Facts Wrong On Hog Farms Letter: I read the article Dr. Johnson wrote in regard to the hog farms with great interest. One fact he got wrong. There are two facilities, each of which can grow 4,000 finishing hogs which would be a total of 8,000 hogs in close proximity of each other. Also, just south of Ider is another large operation. Sometimes the odors overlap. I, too have puzzled and wondered over the question he asked, "How can the lives of so many years be ruined by the waste of one fimily's smelly hogs?" I have concluded that greed has seared their conscience. Remember the love of money is the root of all evil. The second commandment that Jesus gave was, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," Surely they know how many people are suffering because of their actions. My conclusion is that they do not care. I believe that someday they will have to pay for all the misery they are causing. Whether in this life or the life to come is not mine to judge. Another sad thing about this whole mess is the fact that these large operations are causing so many small farmers to have to go out of business. On small farms a few hogs, 50 to 200 brought in just enough cash to keep them operating. They fed their corn to these hogs, let them clean up the fields after harvesting, have room to move about and were then taken to market. There was not a great deal of pollution to deal with and everyone was happy. Now the pollution is unbearable. The small farmers can't compete, people are prisoners in their own homes. Flies, gases, and all kinds of pollution is being released in our soil, water and air. Every large concentrated animal farming operation is causing 20 to 30 small farmers to lose their means (of) livelihood somewhere in the U.S. If you love the farmer, I beg you to do all within your power to stop the growth of these "factory farms" that are invading this great land of ours. My salute to you true farmers and all that you have done to make our country great. We love you. Delorrice Morris Ider, Al.

22 Fri August 03 2001 - 15:41:42
Name: Ryan Hawkins
Email: ryandanyale@yahoo.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: I am a recent anthropology graduate from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I have live on Sand Mountain my whole life in the areas of Dutton and Pisgah. I was recently informed that there is an ongoing project which focuses on the Sand Mountain. The project is being conducted by a southern Appalachian studies group. If you or anyone you know has any information or if you would like to contact me to help you in any way, please feel free to do so. Thank you. I would also like to thank you for taking an active stance in the protection of your environment. I know there is a sludge problem on Sand Mountain, however, I am also concerned with the futures of the local farmers. After all, my forefathers have always relied on farm animals to feed their families.

23 Fri July 27 2001 - 16:19:03
Name: june weldon
Email: eweldon@farmerstel
Homepage URL:
Comments: Hi from pig poop city ,what a shame it used to be Ider AL but the pig stench has taken over, people now joke about our dilemma but to us its all to real Its the same old situation, Stench ,flies, trucks mosquitoes,pig poop ,pig urine, angry people , sick people, people prisoners in thier homes, kids confined to thier homes , no BBQs no visitors, no fun , no coffee on the porch, no life at all, and the keepers of the people are all kicked back counting thier money eating hog and kisssing the fat behind of a certain insurance company Talk about a third world country thats what the USA is turning into just start looking how far back this nation is going maybe the corporations are moving forward stepping on the little man as they go think Im kidding look at the GAS situation the Public did not buy that one, also the power outs ,got cought did they not ,anyway when are these pig corporations going to be taken down a peg or two and be more responsable toward the welfare of man instead of the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ also crulty to animals, I am sick of all the excuses that nothing can be done to take this nightmare away from us and thousands of others throughout the land ,were are the laws that should protect us from this nightmare and with so many lawsuits and protests why does the government not step in they are fast enough to critzise other countrys as to inhumane treatment to thier people ,WHAT ABOUT US ITS A DARN SHAME NOBODY CARES AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT FOUGHT FOR THE FREDOM OF THE USA AND OTHER COUNTRYS HAVE TO SIT BACK AND TAKE THIS SH## WHEN ARE YOU ALL GOING TO KICK IN AND SAY EOUGH IS ENOUGH WE WANT OUR RIGHTS BACK WE WANT FRESH AIR CLEAN WATER AND OUR FREDOM TO GO AND COME AS WE PLEASE AND NOT BE UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE HOG FARMERS AND THEIR STINKNG FILTHY HOGS SAY A PRAYER. JUNE.

24 Sat July 14 2001 - 02:43:53
Name: Brenda Ivey
Email: nchandler@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: I would like to post an article that ran in the Dekalb Advertiser newspaper this week. I don't know the gentleman who wrote the article, but I appreciate his intelligence: Remembering "smell the bacon!" I can't seem to get out of my mind an editorial that appeared in your newspaper about a year ago that was written by a lady from Oneonta. In her editorial, she admonished the poor people in Ider to "smell the bacon!" She was referring to the hog farm that was built in the middle of a community where many families have lived for 40-50-60-70 plus years. I no longer live in Ider but have many relatives living in the area and I visit them several times a year. However, after living in Ider as a young man, I remeber sitting on the front porch and swinging, having a family reunion or picnic in the back yard, cutting a watermelon just picked from the patch, going to bed at night with the windows open to enjoy the cool summer breeze, and many other things that can no longer be enjoyed. The people in Ider are now prisioners inside their own homes. Why? Because the people in the community must daily smell the urine and fecal waste of 4,000 smelly hogs! Yes, lady from Oneonta, the community prays for the day when they can once again "smell the bacon" and return to enjoying life the way it was before the unhealthy hog farm was built in their backyards. Personally, I would like to ask one question! How can the lives of so many families who have lived in this community for so many years be ruined by the waste of one family's smelly hogs? Would someone please answer this question. I anxiously await an answer. By: Dr. Melvin Johnson Orlando, Florida

25 Sun July 08 2001 - 04:19:54
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@hiwaay.net
Homepage URL:
Comments: In response to Steve Ford's article "Unfounded fears have no place in hog-farm debate" published in the Chattanooga Times Free Press on June 24. Mr. Ford has fail to convince this reader there is no bases for the environmentalist position on the social and environmental disadvantages of hog CAFO's. Mr. Ford has used half-truths, misdirection, and personal opinion to build his view of the truth. Perhaps the environmentalist have overstated some facts to bring this issue to the public attention. Perhaps Mr. Ford is unaware that in Alabama (his home state) there have already been surface and ground water contamination caused by hog CAFO's. Contamination that has effected human drinking water supplys and threatened many more. Further more, it's a pretty good bet that Mr. Ford does not live near a hog CAFO or he would be more concerned with Human Rights than Property Rights. I know from personal experience, a year ago a 4,000 head hog farm was built across the road from my home. The farmer lives two miles away. Wayne Cummins, President, Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens Pisgah, Alabama

26 Wed June 27 2001 - 15:20:33
Name: David Brewer
Email: dpbrewer@scottsboro.org
Homepage URL:
Comments: Hi! I am a reporter for The Huntsville Times...I'd like to some people who live in Pisgah area around Tracy Skinner's hog farm... I'm seeking comments about this t operation for a story. I'm also looking for Wayne Cummins if anyone knows how I can reach him. Thanks, David Brewer Office: 256-259-1042 Home: 256-259-1031 pager/voice mail: 256-219-2935 fax: 256-259-3735

27 Wed June 20 2001 - 23:53:27
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@hiwaay.net
Homepage URL:
Comments: June meeting of the Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens will be on Thursday, June 28 at 7:00 in Henagar, AL. The meeting will be held at the Restraint near the main intersection. Thursday night is still Mexican night. Come at 6:30 and join us for Dinner before the meeting.

28 Mon June 11 2001 - 23:25:28
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@hiwaay.net
Homepage URL:
Comments: Skinner Farms Hog CAFO near Pleasent View was STINK'EN today! Its gona be a long hot stink'en summer!

29 Wed May 02 2001 - 21:42:04
Name: Brenda Ivey
Email: nchandler@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: Hello Everyone: We have made it to another Spring and Summer with the dreaded HOG Stench! People that don't live near these HOG FACTORIES have no idea how thankful they should be. They have been hauling hogs out of the facilities down below our house and they are leaving a trail of HOG STINK on the road. The road smells like numerous rotten decaying animals. The flies are having a field day with the contamination. The flies are everywhere. I have never in my life been so tortured and tormented from such irresponsible actions. People don't matter anymore it is the love of money it doesn't matter that the people are sacrificed. What happened to compassion for your neighbors. We have people right now in our community terminally ill with cancer and the added torture of living their last days in such an unhealthy environment. If they by chance have a day where they feel like they could sit outside on the porch and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air it would be according to which way the wind is blowing that day. There will be a payday one day!

30 Sun April 22 2001 - 02:13:28
Name: June Weldon
Email: eweldon@ farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: Thanks to all who were at he meeting you all gave me the bolster I needed to carry on the fight against Hog CAFOs june

 

31 Tue March 13 2001 - 22:41:23
Name: June Weldon
Email: eweldon@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: Just a note to let you know out there in the world we are still fighting this hog war I just dread the spring as it will be so nice, but alass I will be a prisoer in my home only alowed out when the wind blows the hog stench another way. What is wrong with the State letting this go on when the big boys know people are protesting all over the State AL, all over the country.I reilize people dont count any more, just money,just fatten your pockets you cant take it with you.Of course you know its the hog barns with 400000 hogs in Ider AL that I am refering to I just have to bow my head and pray and let the tears flow what mental torture I and others endure God have mercy on us all we are but slaves to the greedy few you know who you are hope you say your prayers at night and confess your sin of being the cause of so much heart ache JUNE

32 Wed February 28 2001 - 15:52:39
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@hiwaay.net
Homepage URL:
Comments: Sen. Butler and Rep. McDaniel are sponsoring House Bill 402. The down home name for this bill is the "Family Farm Preservation Act". This bill would exempt corporate contracted mega-farms from lawsuits based on nuisance. It would be more appropriate and honest to name this bill the "Corporate Factory Farm Preservation Act". Independent family farms don't worry about lawsuits. Corporate maga-farms worry about lawsuits. By naming this bill "Family Farm" Sen. Butler and Rep. McDaniel as a favor to ALFA have misled the public into thinking this bill is intended to protect "Old McDonnell's Farm" which the corporations forced into bankruptcy in the late nineteen eighties. The surviving independent farming operations never, but never, create the massive air, water, and social pollution that corporate Confined Animal Feeding Operations create on an ever-increasing basis. ALFA, once the champion of the independent farmer is now the lobbyist for corporate agribusiness and has no time for the struggling farmer who refuses to mortgage the farm and become a sharecropper for a major corporation. A major corporation who may have men in leadership positions in both the corporation and ALFA. It is time for Alabama to consider how our generous tax favors to ALFA effect both the Alabama's farming community, our political system, and the future of Alabama. Those tax favors to ALFA were never intended to benefit corporate stockholders of out of state corporations, or to be used for political slight of hand, or to mislead the people of Alabama! Wayne Cummins, President, SMCC

33 Tue February 20 2001 - 22:31:34
Name: Kitty Jones
Email: thundercanyon@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: A few weeks ago I flipped on the TV and the program "To Tell the Truth" was coming on and featured the founder of "Earth Day"...a former Senator from Wisconsin. After the questions, etc. they talked to "young" man, now 85, and one panelist asked him, "What do you think of George W. Bush's environmental policy?" He replied "It stinks!". So our work is cut out for us if we want to keep environment clean...most articles say to watch for attachments that weaken environmental laws attached to other bills.

34 Sun February 18 2001 - 19:19:22
Name: Wayne Cummis
Email: wcummins@hiwaay.net
Homepage URL:
Comments: There is something stinking in Montgomery. But of course you have known that for a long time. This time its Sen. Butler and Rep. McDaniel. They are pushing a bill for ALFA that will take Alabama back a hundred years, to a time of smelters and tanneries, steam engines and gristmills. The bill will prevent you from bringing a lawsuit against big landowners and corporate megafarms on the basis of nuisance. At a time when ALFA is working hard to bring the problems of North Carolina's hog industry to Alabama. ALFA is using near sited state legislators to block citizens, cities, and injured businesses from being able to do anything about it when someone parks a hundred thousand head hog farm on the edge of a town or in your back yard. And some people wonder why Alabama needs Home Rule, a New Constitution, Hello! Alabama embraces a state-of-the-art auto industry, it is building the space age, and a hand full of backward thinkers who have never been any further from home than Auburn wants to stop the clock in Alabama and make it one big pig pen! If Sen. Butler and Rep. McDaniel would shove this stinking bill up the nostrils of everyone in Alabama for nothing more than a pat on the back from ALFA (and a little help at the next election campaign) what's next? I've heard unsubstantiated rumors they are soon coming with a bill that will force you to remove the muffler from your car and throw your garbage in the creek. The people of the 2nd and 26th districts need to consider these men are blocking the road to progress and should be voted in the road ditch along with their "Stinking Bill".

35 Wed February 14 2001 - 03:31:14
Name: June Weldon
Email: eweldon@farmerstel.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: Well we sufer on , It is now effecting me mentaly, I just think all the time about being a prisoner, and the spring will be here and then all hell will break lose again spreading this vile pig manure all around us to the point we gag, I just hope and pray there is some one out there that will come to our rescue ,we need our fredom back ,what dont the people of Alabama understand about pig stench ,and the right of people to be able to breathe fresh air We are not the only ones in Alabama to protest this dibolical situation of home arrest, home invasion,by these abominable stenches fom the swine CAFOS in our community , we have yet to hear from any of our elected officials what they intend to do to help us,the protest are growing so look out at the polls .Anyway I just wanted to touch base and let you know I have not given up on my part to try and get these swine out of here and get our life back for us and our children .What a sick nasty habit spreading hog manure all over the land ,remember to wash your vegetables they grow in hog manure and urine,oh must not forget the flies and magots that invade our homes and yards.Thousands of pigs in a barn is not farming its a growing factory for pigs that stink to high heaven, put toxin in the air, and are slowly killing us ,have to go and put my mask on and feed my animals, I will be back. JUNE.

36 Tue February 13 2001 - 15:45:43
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37 Fri January 19 2001 - 03:31:27
Name: Brenda Ivey
Email: nchandler@farmerstel.com
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Comments: The horrible odor of HOG STENCH is still trespassing neighbors property and creating major problems. One neighbor told me they actually vomited from the STENCH yesterday. I am spraying clorox disenfectant spray to try to get rid of the odor inside our home Tuesday. We are still killing blow flies inside our home in freezing temperatures the dread of summer lies ahead. I would like to post a poem that a 10 year old little girl wrote that was given to me by a guest speaker who spoke at the "Summit for Sustainable Hog Farming" held in N.C. last Thursday. The lady told me the poem would break your heart and it did. ACROSS THE ROAD: Across the road is no place to play, the smell is so bad it smells everyday. Across the road is a pool of waste, the smell stings your eyes like I have just been mace. Across the road they pollute the creek, the smell is enough to make you sick. Across the road they dump waste over the side, they put out their hogs after they have died. Across the road they began to build on, the fans keep us up from dusk till dawn. Across the road they bring grain by the load, I can no longer ride my bike on the road. Across the road the pigs are noisy when they sell, all my friends feel sorry for me because of the smell. By: Katie Godfrey. When I read this poem I realized my child was not the only one suffering from irresponsible actions created by corporations and so-called farmers. In my opinion they are not farmers they are contract growers. One so-called farmer was quoted in the newspaper that the people who complained their kids could not play outside were not "True Kids". That is easy for him to say because his children do not live near the facilities. Just because children do not want to breathe HOG MANURE from 8,000 finishing hogs does not mean they are not "TRUE KIDS".

38 Thu January 18 2001 - 22:29:10
Name: Wayne Cummins
Email: wcummins@hiwaay.net
Homepage URL:
Comments: Dear Concened Citizens, On January 11th myself and several members of the Alabama environmental community attended the Water Keeper Alliance Summit meeting in New Bern, North Carolina. This was without question the most uplifting gathering of some of America's finest and most outspoken supporters of a clean and healthy environment for the future of America. Hog factories of course were the topic of the day. Thank the good Lord we got started on the problem here in Alabama when we did. Major legal action will soon start against the largest of these hog factories across the nation. Some of the best legal minds in the country will be involved in this battle which is expected to rival the tobacco law suits or the asbestos legal cases. Robert Kennedy Jr. will lead this effort, and folks I have to say he is a carbon copy of his father and speaks with even more passion. His last statement in his address to the 500+ attendees was "This will be a long and difficult task but this crusade will not stop until we reach Jerusalem". I have asked this legal team to consider adding Alabama to their list of states that will receive their highest priority. At this time there is no guarantee they will consider us as they already have hundreds of problem areas to review. The Alabama representatives made some excellent national contacts and met some wonderful grassroots defenders of environmental justice. These contacts will increase our information flow from other areas of the country to keep abreast of the problem nationally. Our job now is improving the Environmental Network here in Alabama and to get more people involved. We will be working on this task in the coming months. Wayne Cummins President, Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens

39 Thu January 18 2001 - 21:06:22
Name: Nat Berry
Email: natberry@yahoo.com
Homepage URL:
Comments: Hi Sand Mountain, Well, sorry about the guestbook, but it just proves nothing is FREE! Yahoo changed theirs and I can't get the new one to work so I got this one. Write a book; express yourself. This year is a year to get active, speak out, and act up. Kentucky just passed a bill making the Corporations responsible for damages created by CAFO's. I am trying to get more info on that. Hank Graddy is a Sierran and the lawyer who successfully fought for the bill. Hilary Hopper is the Conservation Chair of the Kentucky Sierra Bluegrass. She is interested in hearing from you and knows Hank very well. Her email is hlhopper@prodigy.net Send her an email and tell her about the situation. Our Sierra has worked with them and she told me she would like to get more involved in regional concerns. Take care. Nat