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I write a lot about the meat industry’s nearly unbridled power in this country<\/a>, which it uses to abuse labor, land, farmers, water, animals, and communities in execution of its business model. Sometimes, citizens fight back—and win. Lynn Henning, a family farmer in rural Michigan, is one such person. She and her husband run a 300-acre corn and soy farm—within 10 miles of no fewer than 12 concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). Her effort to document the ill effects of living surrounded by these vast fecal\/pharmaceutical mires has caused her and her family plenty of trouble. Her car is often followed—and even run off the road; dead animals appear on her lawn. But her work has resulted in hundreds of citations for the CAFOS that surround her house; and in 2008, based on evidence that Henning dug up, the state of Michigan for the first time ever denied a license for a CAFO. Efforts of citizens like Henning expose our pathetic regulatory structure around meat production—and act as the necessary spur for improving things. I congratulate Lynn on winning the 2010 North America Goldman Environmental Prize<\/a>—and congratulate Goldman<\/a> for understanding and highlighting the relavance of this issue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Time for the public to reinvest in food-system infrastructure<\/a><\/p>\n USDA Inspector General: meat supply routinely tainted with harmful residues<\/a><\/p>\n Fred Kirschenmann, winner of NRDC’s Growing Green “Thought Leader” award<\/a><\/p>\n