River of Waste with short America’s Dairyland

When: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Where: Monona Public Library, 1000 Nichols Road, Monona, WI
Topic: A heart-stopping new documentary, A River Of Waste exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. The damage documented in today’s factory farms far exceeds the damage that was depicted in Upton Sinclair’s novel, “The Jungle,” a book written over 100 years ago. Some scientists have gone so far as to call the condemned current factory farm practices as “mini Chernobyls.”

How white is our milk? How American is our cheese? In fact, who actually makes it? More and more of Wisconsin’s farmer Johns are working with farmer Juans. Come on a tour of America’s Dairyland and meet today’s milk producers and cheese packers — the new faces of dairy production. Sí, the Wisconsin countryside is changing.