Comments on: West Virginia Officials Say “Farming is the Future” https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/05/07/west-virginia-officials-say-farming-is-the-future/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Issie Mulberry https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/05/07/west-virginia-officials-say-farming-is-the-future/#comment-30495 Issie Mulberry Sat, 18 May 2013 11:02:52 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=8275#comment-30495 This impressed me, I need to say. You can come down on both sides of this debate for the farmers. Either way, they need some cash flow, but not in the face of destruction of their good land, good water, and clean air. All these trucks, it's like an invasion! What about the very loud sustained noises at night? What about the flares lighting up the night sky? This impressed me, I need to say. You can come down on both sides of this debate for the farmers. Either way, they need some cash flow, but not in the face of destruction of their good land, good water, and clean air.

All these trucks, it’s like an invasion! What about the very loud sustained noises at night? What about the flares lighting up the night sky?

]]> By: WV Host Farms Program https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/05/07/west-virginia-officials-say-farming-is-the-future/#comment-30037 WV Host Farms Program Fri, 10 May 2013 15:02:49 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=8275#comment-30037 In rural communities in WV, we have many small farms that rely on Farmers Markets to sell their produce for supplemental income. And we also have "Mountain State Naturals" - which is a "WV Beef Farmers' Cooperative" that markets their beef as raised without using growth hormones. On their website: "Our cattle are raised in open fields with continual access to pasture. They are never fed growth hormones of any kind and have never been given antibiotics. Our young West Virginia beef are raised to about 1100 pounds and receive corn supplements as they reach finished weight. Because our West Virginia beef are primarily fed grass, they are higher in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are shown to reduce or prevent cardiac disease. " But what now raises a concern is the fact that these pasture fed cattle are being raised for entry into the food market in areas of WV where there is significant Marcellus shale gas drilling and on properties having oil and gas wells on or very near them. What kind of risk will this have if the cattle are grazing in meadows and drinking from streams right next to drilling sites. Thus, there is risk of contamination from the hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals that are being injected down into gas wells to frack in meadows where these cattle live? Is anyone studying this? They should be! In rural communities in WV, we have many small farms that rely on Farmers Markets to sell their produce for supplemental income. And we also have “Mountain State Naturals” – which is a “WV Beef Farmers’ Cooperative” that markets their beef as raised without using growth hormones.

On their website:
“Our cattle are raised in open fields with continual access to pasture. They are never fed growth hormones of any kind and have never been given antibiotics. Our young West Virginia beef are raised to about 1100 pounds and receive corn supplements as they reach finished weight. Because our West Virginia beef are primarily fed grass, they are higher in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are shown to reduce or prevent cardiac disease. ”

But what now raises a concern is the fact that these pasture fed cattle are being raised for entry into the food market in areas of WV where there is significant Marcellus shale gas drilling and on properties having oil and gas wells on or very near them.

What kind of risk will this have if the cattle are grazing in meadows and drinking from streams right next to drilling sites. Thus, there is risk of contamination from the hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals that are being injected down into gas wells to frack in meadows where these cattle live?

Is anyone studying this? They should be!

]]> By: Dean Gorby https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2013/05/07/west-virginia-officials-say-farming-is-the-future/#comment-29978 Dean Gorby Wed, 08 May 2013 14:49:21 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=8275#comment-29978 Bull-pucky... just another pile that pretends MTR is providing great economic opportunities. So sad WV. Bull-pucky… just another pile that pretends

MTR is providing great economic opportunities.

So sad WV.

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