Taxpayers pay to clean up CAFO waste—yet most CAFO pollution remains. CAFOs produce some 300 million tons of untreated manure each year (about twice as much as is generated by the entire human population of the United States). The disposal and cleanup cost for all of this manure would hobble CAFOs if they had to pay for it themselves. But another program authorized by the federal farm bill, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), subsidizes the cleanup of some CAFO waste.
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