The layouts for two-thirds of this 100 page activity book have been completed. Below is a second sampling of pages.
New “Factory Farm Fun Book” Update
Tag: rural community
Blog Special – Book Publication Announcement and New Book Preview
“You Know You Live near a Factory Farm When Your Kids Go Fishing with a Pool Skimmer”
In Rural America the biggest threat to the health and well-being of the community is the same activity that once strengthened and nurtured it — farming. Industrial farming is rolling the dice against a dystopian future of environmental meltdown, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and genetically modified organisms in a race to quickly amass wealth. Using a simple picture-book style, and the buoyancy of humor, this book navigates the flood of destructive farming practices that have already engulfed the rural community, and are spreading.
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A preview of the second book in the Factory Farm series:
“The Factory Farm Fun Book”
Over a hundred pages of jokes, riddles, games and activities, mazes, poems, sing-a-longs, connect-the dots, humorous stories and more!
Part 7a – A Cyclic History: Pollute, Distort, Pacify, Repeat . . . The Never Ending Cover-up
August 4, 2017 — Algae blooms close Taughannock Falls State Park, the number of toxic algae blooms in New York is up 25 percent this week, and the presence of toxic blue-green algae in Dryden Lake is confirmed by the DEC.
This isn’t the beginning of some apocalyptic eco-thriller – it’s the reality that people in Tompkins County, and all over the country will have to get used to as the fallout from 30 years of unrestricted agricultural activity has turned toxic Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) into this summer’s biggest blockbuster.
Part 7a – A Cyclic History – Pollute-Distort-Pacify-Repeat –The Never Ending Cover-up
Part 6 – Sewers of the Land
The influence of rich and powerful interests in maintaining the status quo in the face of an ever increasing destruction of the environment, is nowhere better seen than in Tompkins County’s handling of agricultural pollution.
The Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan’s representation of environmental issues and policies is a careful dance around the facts — Facts that paint a very different picture of the sources of pollution in the county, and expose an elitist policy making agenda.
Part 5 –Smoke and Mirrors
Participation Circumvention
“The participation of citizens in an open, responsible and flexible planning process is essential to the designing of the optimum town comprehensive plan.” — Town Law § 272-a
Although New York State Town Law stresses the importance of an open and responsibly designed town comprehensive plan, many local officials downplay this document, claiming the local comp plan is only a “guide” — and hide their agenda behind the minimum legal requirements for public meetings and the placement of notifications that exclude the community from participation.
Part 4 – The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Credentials
The rural Town of Lansing is racing ahead to be the “the growth part of the Tompkins County area,” but when you look around, there’s no competition in sight — are we that smart . . . or that stupid?
Part 4 – The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Credentials
Continue reading Part 4 – The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Credentials
Part 3 – “Whose Comp Plan is This, Anyway?”
The Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan is a slick promotional piece, but its bright and shiny surface can’t stand the wear and tear of a real world inspection.
Part 3 – Whose Comp Plan is This Anyway
Continue reading Part 3 – “Whose Comp Plan is This, Anyway?”
Part 2 – Debunking the Lansing Ag Plan
The three greatest factors in the approval of the Lansing Agriculture and Farmland Protection Plan are:
- The plan was never critically examined or allowed to be publicly questioned.
- Lansing’s rural families were unrepresented by any state, local or county agency or government representative, and prevented from having any meaningful participation in the plan themselves.
- The lives and welfare of rural families living in the affected area of Lansing are of no importance whatsoever to the people who created and support this plan.