Bob Watson grew up in a small town in NE Iowa, Strawberry Point. He worked on farms as a kid growing up, including in one of the first chicken confinements in NE Iowa when he was 12 or 13 years old. The last 35 years he was employed in the wastewater industry in Iowa, and has been an environmental activist mostly concerned with the industrial row crop, feedlot, and confinement modern model of agriculture. Bob co-authored the book, Hog Confinements and Human Health: the intersection of science, morals, and law.