The Green Fork Post - Let Them Drink Milk! States Losing Drinking Water to Tortured Cows

By Leslie
Published April 15, 2010

"A conflict in New Mexico is shaping up as a pitched battle between industrial dairy’s desire to avoid regulation and the public’s right to clean, safe drinking water.  According to the state environment department, at least two-thirds of the groundwater underneath or adjacent to New Mexico’s dairy CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) has been poisoned by nitrates. When other pollutants are included, estimates of water contamination by these factory farms can rise as high as 90 percent. No wonder New Mexico’s legislature voted to have regulations drawn up to prevent groundwater pollution by the state’s dairy farms."

http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2010/04/let-them-drink-milk-states-losing-drinking-water-to-tortured-cows/