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03.20.2008 3:01 pm
What’s a CAFO? Jeff Harris will tell you
Jake Wagman
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stymied by conventional political methods, State Rep. Jeff Harris did what so many of his colleagues have already done: Make his own video.

A farm-animal cartoon, no less.

Though it may not have the same appeal as the, say, now infamous Brock Olivo interview, Harris, a Democrat running for Attorney General, released a production today highlighting his stance on something called a CAFO.

What’s a CAFO, you ask?

As Harris is eager to tell you, a “concentrated animal feeding operation” is just what it sounds like - a high-density farming outfit that packs a lot of livestock in a small place.

One of the concerns surrounding these type of facilities is the environmental impact - all that animal waste has to go somewhere.

Harris, who’s from Columbia, has legislation that toughens the requirements to open an animal-feeding outfit.

But Harris says that House Speaker Rod Jetton has kept the legislation from reaching the floor - hence the video pitch.

Enjoy…

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.electjeffharris.com/flash/thislittlecafo.swf" width="425" height="320" wmode="transparent" /]


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