Sierra Club CAFO Subteam

The Sierra Club CAFO Subteam (of the Grassroots Network Food & Agriculture Team) is a dedicated group of volunteers who over many years have investigated CAFOs. Some of us have lived experience with CAFOs. We’ve researched primary sources and evidence corroborated by secondary resources to create Fact Sheets. We use only non-biased sources such as university research (including agricultural colleges), Environmental Protection Agency and state regulator data, judicial court findings, and local, state, and national news reports. Only when an environmental organization actually finds the evidence of pollution do we report their specific findings as well as corroborate the data. Our members are watchdog researchers who hail from most of the environmentally CAFO-manure-damaged coastal, river, and inland water bodies in America. We also investigate soil, air, and neighborhood damage caused by CAFOs.