Stanford researchers found serious loopholes in factory farm regulation—and it’s not just in California.

Seth Millstein, Sentient

Ten million tons of animal manure in the Golden State are unaccounted for, the report finds, thanks to a combination of non-compliance, non-enforcement and opaque disclosure rules. It is not known from public information where the manure went, says Zoe Robertson, JD candidate at Stanford Law and an author of the white paper, but some may well have ended up directly or indirectly in lakes, streams and other public waters.

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