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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I have a much simpler answer, abolish the factory farms!

Besides which, what rational person would voluntarily live in Fresno?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


> In California, Agriculture Takes Center Stage in Pollution Debate
>
> By Juliet Eilperin
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, September 26, 2005; Page A01
>
> RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- On a clear day, San Joaquin looks like a bucolic
> farming community, complete with almond groves, cornfields and orange
> trees. But most of the time the valley -- trapped between the Sierra 
> Nevada
> and the Coast Ranges, with two major highways running north to south
> through it -- is smoggy, filled with air that has fostered widespread
> respiratory disease.