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A few fun facts about the environmental impact of Delmarva’s poultry industry, from this 1999 Washington Post article: Poultry’s Price: The Cost to the Bay * Perdue, the country’s second-largest chicken producer, trucks millions of gallons of waste a year from its Delaware slaughterhouses into Maryland, where the loads are injected into fields. * . . . → Read More: The Price of Poultry In a New Year’s Day letter to the editor published in the Daily Times of Salisbury (Md), Eastern Shore Sanctuary co-founder pattrice jones calls for economic diversification of the Delmarva peninsula, which is currently dominated (and despoiled) by the poultry industry: We need a diversified economy with an agriculture sector divided between production of . . . → Read More: Sanctuary Founder Calls for Delmarva Diversification Every day on the Delmarva peninsula, more than a million birds scream, scratch and flap as they are shackled to the machinery of death. The center of it all is Salisbury, Maryland — home of the late Frank Perdue, who was the first to apply the industrial model now known as “factory farming” to . . . → Read More: Can You Bear to Watch? |
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