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" Does this mean more money for the local community or more money for the project overseer? Is the independent lab that does the so-called water testing a vested interest? Is odor really the biggest worry? How are the spread of disease and bacteria contained? Can the waste really be touted as "natural" fertilizer if it comes from animals that have been pumped full of growth supplements, growth hormones and antibiotics and forced to live in unsanitary, crowded confinement? What will that contaminated manure do to the aquifers? Where will the water come from to maintain 20,000 hogs? How many more hog farms will they build in Woodford County once they get their corporate foot in the door? We have some of the most fertile soil in the world. It would be a shame to see it annihilated by corporate interests. I don't think this is a "city folk" vs. "country folk" issue. Industrial hog farms just choose the place with the fewest people to resist. Just Google "hog farm dangers" and learn all about other communities that have made this mistake. "

" Large hog farms have a far greater impact than odor. A 6,000-sow hog factory will produce approximately 50 tons of raw manure a day. Soil cannot absorb all the heavy metals in the waste of manure sold to you as "natural" fertilizer. It renders land useless - FOREVER. Antibiotics given to hogs seep into drinking water supplies (along with residual antibiotics in swine that are consumed) creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. factory farmers dont care for their animals like family farmers do - they care for their bottom line. something stinks about this farm and it aint just the odor. "

" pork?? They put up a bunch of hog farms in Colorado where I lived. As long as the wind was not blowing my direction, it wasn't bad, but if we got that northerly wind... watch out... it is RANK and I'm talking about the odor coming from a place over 20 miles away!!! "

" Not everyone can "get used to" the odor. Especially when you are expecting guests and want to be outside. Your air conditioning bill will rise because you cannot have windows open without suffering severe nausea. Maybe the confinement owners will provide courtesy rooms at the local hotel when the odors are at their worst. "

" We lived next-door to a feeder pig operation, which was removed to build a huge farrowing confinement. Odor is much worse on a constant basis with feeder pig type. BUT negatives of the entire project of the farrowing operation are great. We have semi-truck traffic, unknown numbers of residents moving in & out of house next door with pedestrian & vehicle traffic increased, some not good neighbors ( I.N.S. could be here), temporary odor from applying pit manure to neighboring fields, pit odor when weather conditions are not so good, township roads destroyed by concrete trucks during construction of confinement buildings, truck lights & noise at night when we want windows open, and terrible odors & smoke from incinerators operated improperly. Keep diligent watch at all times! Learn regulations from Ill. Dept of Agriculture web site & from EPA web site & never hesitate to call EPA. Our questions to EPA led to inspections, fines & changes in operation to make it compliant. You may not have county zoning (we don’t), but the operators MUST obey the law. You do not have to tolerate incinerator violations or truck wash violations. "

" I grew up on an Illinois farm and my husband and I chose to buy an Illinois farm where we live. But we also have recently had a large hog confinement built one-quarter mile from our home. When not a single one of the various owners of the Limited Liability Corporation who profit from the confinement live near it, what does it tell us? They won't live next to the smell, but they expect us to do that. We are not, and never were, "city folks" but there should be some thought for others involved when siting these confinements. To us, it shows how much the owners really don't care. "

" This is Illinois. This used to be a farming State with good ole, down home, friendly farmers. So what if livestock smell a bit. You city folks, er people, need to realize you moved here, we didn't move to the city. You have exhaust fumes, sewer gases, homeless smelly bums under bridges and on street corners begging for money cause the don't work. We have hogs, cattle, sheep and poultry. They smell, but the don't rob, cheat, steal or mug anyone. Get over it or move back to New York City or Chicago. "

" Not everyone can "get used to" the odor. Especially when you are expecting guests and want to be outside. Your air conditioning bill will rise because you cannot have windows open without suffering severe nausea. Maybe the confinement owners will provide courtesy rooms at the local hotel when the odors are at their worst. "

" It is purely a matter of opinion as to whether pork has to be one of the foods we eat. If the operators of confinements are obnoxious enough neighbors, you don't have a great desire to eat pork. Vegetable production does not offend like hog, chicken and turkey confinements do and neither does production of free-range chicken and beef. "

" I grew up on a farm with where hogs were raised, we too had no a/c I married a farmer and also raised hogs. I remember when our city friends would drive into our barnyard and say "Hey Rich Farmer that smells like money!!" Far from the truth but someone has to do it or none of us will have food to eat. "

" Looks like the I.N.S. will have a new hang-out "

" use to the smell. I was raised next door to a HUGE hog farm. It was one block north of our house right at the city limits of my small hometown. There was no a/c in our house, so the north windows were kept open. Hey people - I'm still alive; the smell didn't kill me! Believe it or not, I MISS the smell of the country and when I do smell a hog farm, I do have great memories of my childhood and of home. I would take the smell of a hog farm anytime over the crappy air in the cities no matter how clean the air is supposed to be. "

" Be glad it's not SMOG!!!!!!! "

" some con. 2 sides to every story. thats a lot of pork. but somebodys got to raise it or we dont eat "