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CAFOs, Conflict, and Compromise: An Ethnographic Approach to Attitudes Towards Livestock Production and Related Conflict in Iowa
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Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations. .
| creator | Schafer, Julia. |
| Title | CAFOs, Conflict, and Compromise: An Ethnographic Approach to Attitudes Towards Livestock Production and Related Conflict in Iowa |
| advisor | Queathem, Elizabeth. |
| supporting host | Grinnell College. Biology Department. |
| supporting host | Grinnell College. Peace and Conflict Studies. |
| supporting host | Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Symposium 2017 |
| Index Date | 2016 |
| Date Issued | 2016-08-12 |
| Publisher | Grinnell College |
| Type of Resource | text |
| Genre | research paper |
| Digital Origin | reformated digital |
| Digital Extent | 24 pages |
| Media Type | application/pdf |
| note | Developed as the final paper for a Mentored Advanced Project with Professor Elizabeth Queathem and presented at the Grinnell College Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Symposium 2017 |
| description | Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are agricultural operations where animals are kept and raised in confined situations where they are, or will be, “stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any 12-month period,” and which do not contain crops or vegetation over any portion of the facility (US EPA; Animal Feeding Operations). While the farmers take care of the livestock, large corporations control production at these operations (Wing 2002). It is of increasing interest to local communities and environmental activists to understand how citizens are being affected by this farming technique and the conflict it creates between communities and farmers. In response to the lack of multiplicity of perspectives in literature the purpose of this study is to examine the beliefs and experiences of the residents of Poweshiek and neighboring counties pertaining to CAFOs, to determine how people feel about them and what they perceive to be the source of conflict. This research found that in condensing a multiplicity of experiences and perspectives into one conversation about agriculture it becomes apparent that people are approaching this issue with a premeditated combativeness and that each issue inherent to industrial agricultural production, though it creates different opinions and experiences, could be alleviated with more frank and generous communication. Livestock production is personal, often tied closely with ideals of heritage, livelihood, and property rights, and this shared relationship with agricultural actually unites all those involved in this conflict. |
| Language | English |
| Topic | Agriculture. |
| Topic | Factory farms |
| Topic | Animal industry |
| Topic | Meat industry and trade |
| Topic | Environmental Sciences. |
| Geographic | Iowa. |
| Temporal | 21st Century |
| Classification | SF |
| Classification | TD195.A34 |
| Related Item | Digital Grinnell |
| Related Item | Student Scholarship |
| Related Item | Mentored Advanced Project |
| Identifier (local) | grinnell:18956 |
| Access Condition | Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.). |
| Identifier (hdl) | http://hdl.handle.net/11084/18956 |