Critics may crack egg celebration

A weekend celebration in an Iowa town could include some discouraging words. Agribusiness is much of the reason behind Stuart’s 30-year-old “Good Egg Days,” but this year the festival will include input from some residents who say they’re holding their noses over a plan to build a seven-thousand-hog operation nearby. Drive to the Guthrie County town and you’ll see signs that identify it as the home of “sixteen-hundred good eggs and a few stinkers.” Protestors who’ve already held several community meetings this year over the proposed hog confinement say they’ll be marching in the town parade to show their objection to factory farms they say threaten the quality of their air, water…and way of life.