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Check
out a new book, "Animal Factory"
by David Kirby that features Waterkeeper friends, Rick Dove and
Karen Hudson.
In this thoroughly researched book, David Kirby follows three
families and communities whose lives are utterly changed by immense
neighboring animal farms. These facilities, known as “Concentrated
Animal Feeding Operations,” or CAFOs, confine thousands of pigs,
dairy cattle, and poultry in small spaces, often under stressful
conditions, and generate enormous volumes of fecal and biological
waste as well as other toxins. Learn more at:
www.animalfactorybook.com
St. Martin's Press announces the release of
ANIMAL FACTORY,
on March 2, 2010. For more information, or to pre-order,
please visit
www.animalfactorybook.com
RICK DOVE has been an advocate for the
Waterkeeper Alliance
since July 2000. A former
Riverkeeper, Rick has spent much of his time training Waterkeepers
and helping new programs develop into strong advocates for clean water. He
continues to with work numerous Waterkeepers throughout
North Carolina and
other states as well as staff attorneys at the Waterkeeper Alliance on
the Alliance’s Sustainable
Agriculture campaign. Before joining the Waterkeeper movement,
Rick enjoyed a 25 career with the U.S. Marines that included two tours in
Vietnam. In his
final tour of duty Rick served as military courts-martial judge, After
retiring as a Colonel from the Marines in 1987, Rick commercially fished
the
Neuse River and owned and operated a wholesale fish store. In 1991,
due to pollution, he was forced to abandon his fishing business and
returned to practicing law until becoming the Neuse Riverkeeper in 1993, a
post he held until the year 2000.
As the Neuse River’s spokesperson, Rick has been in more than 4000 news
stories in both major and local media, and his work was detailed in a
chapter of the 1997 Simon
and Schuster book, And the Waters Turned to Blood. Other books
highlighting his activities include: This Moment on Earth by Senator and
Mrs. John Kerry (2006), Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
(2004) and Righteous Porkchop By Nicolette Hahn Niman (2008).
From 1996-1998, Rick was the Governor’s appointee to the
Neuse River Basin
Advisory Council, during which time he was asked to testify before the
U.S. Congress Committee on Resources, Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and
Oceans Subcommittee on the microorganism
Pfiesteria Piscidia and its effects on the river. In 1999, Rick
later testified before U. S. Congress, Senate Committee on Government
Affairs, on March 13, 2002 on issue of pollution generated by Confined
Animals Operations (CAFOs) and the Senate Committee Environment and Public
Works, on September 6, 2007, on issues related to air emissions from
factory farms. Rick
was named one of Time Magazine/Time for Kids Heroes of the Plane in
October 1998 and received an honorary induction as member of Epsilon Nu
Eta, National Environmental
Health Society for Health Professionals 1998. He later received the
1998 Citizens Award presented by
Independent Weekly
Newspaper, Raleigh, North Carolina and was honored by
Charlotte Observer
as Guardian of the Environment, for 1996. In August 1999, the
Raleigh News and Observer
selected Rick as 1of 100 people who have shaped North Carolina in the past
Century. Rick later received the North Carolina Leadership Award from
North Carolina Watershed Coalition, Inc for Year 2000, the Alliance for a
Responsible Swine Industry Appreciation Award June 25, 2000, the EPA
Region IV Merit Award on October 19, 2000, the 2001 Nancy Susan Reynolds
Award for Advocacy (November 17,2001). Rick was recognized by the Clean
Water Network as a Clean Water Hero on 30th Anniversary
of the
Clean Water Act on October 18, 2002
Rick Dove continues to live on the south shore of the Neuse River near
New Bern, North Carolina with his wife of 45 years, the former Joanne
Tezak of Baltimore, Maryland. They have one daughter, Holly Marie Trombley
and four grandchildren all of whom live in the New Bern area. Their son,
Todd, is deceased.
Click the image below to view a slideshow for the Animal Factory
and “Families Against Rural Messes” message.
Karen Hudson is from Elmwood, IL – an all-American town outside of
Peoria that was
devastated by waste lagoon spills and put economic pressure from dairy CAFOs
in the region. Families and neighbors were torn apart over the damage to
the land, the environment, and profits. Karen formed a grassroots group,
“Families Against Rural Messes” to fight the CAFO’s dangerous practices.
