California Air Resources Board

Including factory farm gas in California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard would:
Incentivize more corporate factory farms, harming family farmers, rural communities, our environment and climate, in Missouri, the Midwest and across the U.S.
Create more corporate consolidation in the U.S. livestock industry.
Commoditize methane production, which would fuel more methane producing practices.
Create additional overproduction of commodities, pork and milk, increasing supply and further pushing down market prices paid to independent family farms.
Pay foreign multinational meatpackers, like Chinese-owned Smithfield and Brazilian-owned JBS, for their pollution.
Create incentives for the public (taxpayer dollars through government subsidies) to fund anaerobic digesters to capture factory farm gas.
Please consider the unintended negative consequences of California's policies on Americans throughout the U.S.
There are many negative consequences that come from this illogical and counterintuitive proposal, and here are two of the big ones:
By commoditizing factory farm pollution in California's "Low Carbon Fuel Standard" policy, California would be incentivizing factory farm corporations to continue, and even increase, their methane production causing MORE methane and greenhouse gases, MORE factory farm expansion, MORE water and air pollution, and MORE corporate consolidation.
This proposal would create additional overproduction of pork and dairy, pushing market prices even further down for independent family farms. Currently, overproduction of pork and dairy and resulting low prices have been devastating for independent family farm livestock producers.