1.   At the Capitol Hill summit, environmental groups asked for a national moratorium on large animal feeding operations until the new guidelines are set.

2.   But the feeding operation is run by the Red Cross and it apparently stopped shipping food during the war and has not yet resumed shipments.

3.   Given that growth, several Finger Lakes communities have halted or are considering halting the construction of barns used for concentrated animal feeding operations.

4.   Gauging reports from Washington, the next body of water threatened by runoff from a confined animal feeding operation will be the Potomac.

5.   In planning bus caravans, mass feeding operations and lessons in street protest, organizers are disavowing violence but emphasizing their intentions to build on the events in Seattle.

6.   In response, North Carolina has placed a two-year moratorium on new and expanded swine-concentrated animal feeding operations.

7.   It is the largest penalty an animal feeding operation has ever paid a state, Missouri Attorney General Jeremiah W. Nixon said in a statement.

8.   Large poultry and hog feeding operations in Ohio will soon face tougher environmental standards for water pollution.

9.   Kentucky, Oklahoma and North Carolina have enacted state-wide moratoria on new and expanded animal feeding operations and seven other states are considering similar limits.

10.   Nixon was in Kansas City on Thursday to address a workshop on regulating concentrated animal feeding operations for the National Association of Attorneys General.