September 23rd, 2013
Ending Big Chicken’s Free Ride
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State and federal officials have long been aware of the pressing problem that industrial agriculture brings to the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States and one of the most important biologically productive estuaries in the world. Unfortunately, elected officials and policymakers have passed the Bay clean-up costs to residents and refuse to make the chicken industry, a main polluter of the Bay, pay its fair share for the waste from its thousands of chicken factory farms.