While you were busy, our legislature and governor have unleashed laws to spread toxic animal waste in virtually every county, every watershed, every river, every lake and every parcel of ground in Missouri. They did this on behalf of “Big Meat”: a bloody clump of four giant international companies that produce meat and butcher animals in rural factories for foreign buyers.
What Big Meat wants, they got: access to clean water from our aquifers, minimal oversight and most important: the right to dump oceans of toxic waste in our state with no limits whatsoever. To repeat: there are no limits on the amount of waste they’re allowed to dump in Missouri and no private land is safe.
Recently, a Texas-owned slaughter plant near Pleasant Hope decided to dump 350,000 gallons of toxic waste EVERY DAY into the Pomme De Terre River where it would also ruin our beautiful Pomme de Terre Lake. This is perfectly legal in Missouri; all you need is a pen swipe from a bureaucrat in Jefferson City. Outraged neighbors have forced a delay, but you could be next.