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Sanctuary Founder Calls for Delmarva Diversification

January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Issues, News

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 healthy food [...]

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Thanksgiving at the Sanctuary

November 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · News

We got some good news yesterday, via Mary Finelli at Farmed Animal Watch: High feed prices are, as we predicted in our Strategic Action Memo on the subject, driving down poultry industry profits.
The big publicly traded poultry companies - Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. - have all seen their stock prices [...]

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