An increasing number of scientists and public health officials throughout the nation report that they have traced health problems in persons living near huge industrial livestock farms to "concentrated animal waste, which emit toxic gases while collecting in open-air cesspools or evaporating through sprays." Notes a front-page article in The New York Times (5/11/03): Livestock trade officials and Bush administration regulators say more study is needed before any cause and effect can be proved. But Dr. Kaye H. Kilburn, a professor at the University of Southern California who studies the effects of toxic chemicals on the brain, said evidence strongly supported a link between the farms and …
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