More than 500 chicken barns are being built in eastern Nebraska as part of the Costco/Lincoln Premium Poultry project.
A coalition of Nebraska groups is calling for a moratorium on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the state.
The petition effort is led by Nebraska Communities United (NCU), a group formed in 2015 to oppose the Costco/Lincoln Premium Poultry (LPP) project in eastern Nebraska. NCU calls the Costco/LPP project “the extreme vertical integration of animal agriculture” and wants a halt to further expansion “until our state and county regulations provide adequate protections for rural communities and farmworkers”.
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