Brad Lager gets his pork butt handed to him by angry Savannah residents

Last week, Missouri state Sen. Brad Lager faced the wrath of nearly 100 angry people who were gathered at the firehouse on Savannah, Missouri’s main drag. The residents of Savannah — a rural, bedroom community just north of St. Joseph — hurled questions at the lawmaker concerning his bill that would significantly impact property owners’ rights to sue the operators of massive, factory hog-feeding operations — hog farms with a reputation for depressing local property values and their neighbors’ quality of life.

The Savannah residents’ outrage is more urgent now that a new CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation) is in the development phase, just two miles outside of town. It would house up to 9,600 hogs. Do the people of Savannah think this plan stinks? You bet your bacon-eating ass they do.