Wisconsin Peninsula Is Breathtaking, but Don't Drink the Water

This manure-filled water came directly from Kewaunee County
residents Erika and Rob Balza’s kitchen faucet. Drinking the
water would lead to a visit to the hospital.

Wisconsin is becoming the state of fecal freaks and the manure mob

At a public hearing on factory farms held in Luxemburg in northeastern Wisconsin's peninsula this week, the public sentiment is clear: No more factory farms, we want clean water.

But factory farm corporations backed by the Scott Walker administration don't care what people want and think.

This is what Wisconsin has become in the lost decade, 2011-2019.

Reports Paul Srubas in the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin newspapers:

[S]eaker after speaker got up to the microphone to call [factory farm corporations] greedy and accuse them of destroying the environment.

About 170 people gathered at the Kewaunee Fairgrounds to give or listen to testimony at a hearing by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over whether to issue a permit for a new Concentrated Animal Feed Operation and reissue five-year permits to four existing CAFO farms. ...

Several representatives of an environmental group in Door County spoke, as did a lawyer from Midwest Environmental Advocates in Madison, and several area town board and county supervisors.

Most of the speakers were just area residents.

Residents, in other words people and families. But families' clean and safe water is not the concern of the Walker administration and the fecal freaks whom the administration represents.

Wisconsin's first assembly
district is the peninsula jutting
out into Lake Michigan
in northeastern Wisconsin.
The district is in a water
crisis caused by manure
vectored into drinking
water by factory farms.
The current state rep.
Joel Kitchens, (R), works
for the water poisoners,
the factory farms.

Writes a clean water ally in central Wisconsin, Don Ystad:

Fellow concerned citizens,

This ends with us! When Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce teams up with the Dairy Business Association to fight rules to keep manure out of the public's water, you know they have overstepped.  While we expect them to be business-focused, we would also expect them to be reasonable when it comes to protections for those of us relying on clean water throughout the state. In other words, promote business, but not at the expense of human health and well being.

The irony of this is that they use their profits from doing business with you to work against you.

Here is an opportunity to link arms with your neighbors and show up in Madison to make a statement. You may not have the financial resources they have, but you can at least show up and make a statement. I plan to, and hope you will as well. See the League of Conservation Voters announcement linked to sign up.

Don Ystad for Concerned Rome, Wisconsin Citizens