There are no laws to prevent the spread of toxic animal waste in virtually every county, every watershed, every river, every lake and every parcel of ground in Missouri. My family and friends in McDonald County have witnessed this first hand. Missouri law allows unlimited numbers of four-acre lagoons filled with toxic waste from meat factories, industry and cities. These new lagoons near Joplin hold waste from Arkansas and the ones planned near St. Louis solicited poison from five states with plans to spread this on private land nearby.
According to Dan Chiles, “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 dumped 350,000 gallons of toxic waste EVERY DAY into the Pomme De Terre River that feeds into Pomme de Terre Lake. This is perfectly legal in Missouri. These polluters can appear almost any place without public notice, discussion or appeal.