I wrote here a year ago Saturday a detailed account of the negative consequences of Walker's now-six-year-old plan to expand big-dairy operations
and milk production in Wisconsin at the expense of smaller family-scale farms, and state water quality, to boot.
And you wonder why groundwater near these big dairy operations is unfit to drink?
I do not know how Walker and Schinmel and the GOP legislators who do their bidding for big corporate farms can run for re-election in rural Wisconsin, or even show their faces there.
and milk production in Wisconsin at the expense of smaller family-scale farms, and state water quality, to boot.
WI boosts big dairies & supply; smaller farms threatened anewThis Journal Sentinel story today shows that the madness continues.
Cheese-maker stepping up to help save 4 family farms as dairy crisis deepensNote also that key Walker GOP ally Attorney Brad Schimel recently appointed a former dairy lobbyist to run the environmental unit at the Department of Justice, and environmentalists are challenging Schimel's settlement of a case involving big dairies and DNR enforcement that the dairy industry hailed as a win.
And you wonder why groundwater near these big dairy operations is unfit to drink?
I do not know how Walker and Schinmel and the GOP legislators who do their bidding for big corporate farms can run for re-election in rural Wisconsin, or even show their faces there.