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Air pollution

Air Quality issues for residents in the vicinity of factory farms References on the Health and Environmental Impacts of Industrial Animal Production.
Fresh from the Farm by David Taylor, Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 107, Number 3 March 1999
Manure Causing White Haze
Potential Health Effects of Odor From Animal Operations, Wastewater Treatment, and Recycling of Byproducts Susan S. Schiffman et al

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General articles on air quality and odour (pdf)
Health effects of odour (pdf)
Ammonia emissions (pdf)
Aerobic decomposition of manure (pdf)
Measuring odour (pdf)
Odour reduction techniques (pdf)
Odour and the law (pdf)

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January 21, 2007
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March 24, 2005
Enforcement act threatens Canadian food sovereignty

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April 16, 2004 (national)
Chicken flu latest in long line of factory farming ills
April 16, 2004 (Alberta)
Alberta communities fight for control over approval of factory farm sites
April 16, 2004 (British Columbia)
Proposed meat inspection bill could slaughter small producers
April 16, 2004 (Manitoba)
Pigs rule — Municipalities lose — Proposed planning act set to ditch democracy in rural Manitoba
April 16, 2004 (New Brunswick)
Air and water pollution evidence mounts against factory hog operation
April 16, 2004 (Ontario)
Citizens: stop factory farm hog production in Ontario
April 16, 2004 (PEI)
PEI Groups will make the case for “Family Farms NOT Factory Farms”
April 16, 2004 (Saskatchewan)
Citizens call for moratorium on factory farm hog production in Saskatchewan
April 23, 2004
Citizens meet with Cabinet Ministers to demand hog barn moratorium