Wisconsin’s Big Ag lobby threatens clean water rule

Wisconsin’s proposed nitrate pollution rule, critical to protecting the health of more than 1 million residents, is in danger of being blocked by a group of lawmakers beholden to industrial agriculture special interests.

Wisconsin faces a growing public health and economic crisis, fueled by years of unchecked nitrate pollution of drinking water from farm fertilizers. More than 1.2 million Wisconsinites are drinking water with elevated levels of nitrate, which is linked to cancer, thyroid disease and other health hazards. In many places, the hazards of nitrate-contaminated water are borne by vulnerable populations, including infants, people of color and people living below the poverty line...
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Ken Notes: Money corrupts politics period. When Wisconsin`s small farms were disappearing at an exponential rate few politicians stood in the way. Why? Because these farms had no lobby to protect them, now mega farms and CAFO`s are the norm and we will step aside to allow them to thrive at the cost of our water, land, people, and the smaller farms that built this State.