Sonoma County is well-known for its hundreds of small farms. But throughout the county, there are approximately two dozen “Large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations,” as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which confine a total of nearly 3 million animals. This includes factory egg farms, like a Sunrise facility in Petaluma that confines around half a million chickens in massive industrial sheds. It also includes chicken farms that supply to Perdue, one of the country's largest meat producers, and a handful of large dairy farms with an average of over 1,000 cows. These factory farms hide behind Sonoma County’s reputation for small-scale and sustainable agriculture, but they are poisoning the environment, hoarding the limited water supply, spreading disease, and confining animals in deplorable conditions.