Sonoma County ballot measure would ban large livestock farms

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4. I kinda agree with the Mouth

Sonoma was traditionally a farming community serving meats and veges and wines to the Bay Area. It serves that function today too. With the value of real estate and the cost of labor skyrocketing scale is the thing that lets ag continue around here. There are some big operations but very few that get close to true ‘factory farm’ scale. (Unless you count wine growing, of course). So I too question the motives of the initiatives backers.

We need to have food production close to where it’s consumed to reduce transportation related greenhouse gasses. Kick the chicken producers out of Petaluma and what? Poultry products from the really giant factory farms in Arkansas?