By Marie-Louise Meyers

We have to decide,

what’s most important in our lives,

once you open the door to too many compromises

between clean air and clean water

are we compromising on health itself?

The violators must be taught when they violate

much as we are fined for any violations we incur.

My husband and I fought the “Good Fight”

against Factory Farms and were even featured in the

Philadelphia Inquirer in the Rotogravure 

when a new Hog Factory backed up to the creek 

and any secretions could easily find their way into the reservoir.

We attended a “Hog Summit” which featured Robert Kennedy

as the principal speaker with attendees from the various

organizations including the Sierra Club.  

I included all the scientific data in a series of articles

in the now defunct Oxford Newspaper with a great deal of response,

many on the same page, but still my life was threatened  

as the carrier of a truthful message,

and still we suffer assault on our very lives each day

when we can neither count on clean water and air to survive.