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Jean Hon

Win Big Bucks! Save the world! Building Better Waste Management Systems for Large Cattle Ranchers to Prevent Groundwater Contamination. Jean Hon. Factory Farming - Background. Issues Growing Demand Environmental Disasters Human Health.

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Jean Hon

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  1. Win Big Bucks! Save the world! Building Better Waste Management Systems for Large Cattle Ranchers to Prevent Groundwater Contamination Jean Hon

  2. Factory Farming - Background

  3. Issues • Growing Demand • Environmental Disasters • Human Health

  4. A concentrated animal feeding operation with waste lagoons Image: John Klein/Lighthawk

  5. Source: http://www.factoryfarmmap.org/

  6. Insufficient monitoring Risks can be mitigated Nitrate pollution is preventable Source: EPA, Metrics for Nitrate Contamination of Ground Water at CAFO Land Application Sites, June 2009.

  7. If you build it, they will come. Lets build a better waste management system.

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