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Dani Lin Hunter- We Bring you EI-EI-O No! Have you ever heard the term Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)? CAFOs, or factory farms, are massive facilities with hundreds of pigs or thousands of poultry living indoors with no access to sunlight or fresh air. In North Carolina, we don’t have access to how many poultry CAFOs are operating at any given time or where they are. The NC Department of Agriculture has locked up this data and won't share it with the public, NC Department of Environmental Quality, or Department of Health and Human Services. Even though new ones pop up every month, we can only get estimates every 5 years. Each CAFO produces a lot of animal waste. CAFOs add pollutants to our air, soil and water, and are harmful to human health. They are often placed in or near communities of color and low income rural communities. Not knowing where CAFOs are makes it really difficult for them to protect themselves and advocate against CAFOs. This information needs to be public information. In this project, classify satellite images containing aerial imagery of CAFOs Your work will help our team document where CAFOs are located and what animals are being reared in them. E-I-E-I-O No! Is a chance to help each other learn more about this barnyard crisis, and the tools are in your hands! To Read The Press Release tinyurl.com/EIEIONO-Press To Check Out The Project tinyurl.com/EIEIONO @the.zooniverse #CAFO #IndustrialAgriculture #NCEJN #environmentaljustice #participatoryscience #communityscience #poultryrights #humanhealth #animalrights