Environmental pollution from CAFOs

Hannah Connor

Chapter 34 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 132-135 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The commercial animal agricultural model has changed dramatically over the past seventy years, shifting from a farm and land model to one that tightly confines animals in industrialized settings. That shift has enabled livestock and poultry operations to grow significantly in size, often in increasingly concentrated regions of the country. This entry explores how environmental pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations threatens public health, degrades waterways, contaminates groundwater, pollutes the air, disrupts ecosystems, harms wildlife, and impacts quality of life for animals.

Keywords: Environmental law; Animal feeding operation; Concentrated animal feeding operation; CAFO; Public health; Environmental pollution; Environmental injustice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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