Scientific Abstract
Often in the view of environmental and public health, despite inconclusive body of literature, there is an implicit bias towards animal agriculture where it is villainized yet often neglected. Understanding the status quo of agriculture, environment, and public heath aspects collectively is needed for betterment of translational research that can support sustainable, evidence-based, actionable solutions, and finding middle grounds. Spatial analysis would facilitate understanding the heterogeneity of exposure landscape and would support areas to focus on collecting finer scale data related to CAFO land use, propose targeted changes and determine allowable water, air, soil quality thresholds per CAFO location in vulnerable geographical areas.
