Environmental Impact of the Poultry Industry

Environmental Impact of the Poultry Industry

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Updated 2009 [pdf]: Intensive Poultry Production: Fouling the Environment
05/15/09: Recent Podcasts Featuring UPC President Karen Davis: The Little Chicken Named Viva Who Started It All & Why Industrial Chicken Production is Wrong
7/02/08: ENVIRONMENTAL FACTS AND STATISTICS ABOUT INDUSTRIALIZED ANIMAL FARMS
6/18/08: “Food crisis solution: Go vegan” on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” June 17.

6/15/07: Every Living Beating Heart

4/17/06: Greenpeace Investigation Links European Fast Food to Amazon Destruction

6/30/05: United Poultry Concerns Sticks Up For Poodles in Earth First!
6/27/05: Sierra Club Touts Turning Slaughterhouse Chicken Feathers Into Plastic: "The Perfect Fix" to help the Poultry Industry Get MORE RICH
2/02/05: Tyson Chicken Held Accountable for Pollution
5/17/04: POULTRY LITTER HARBORS AGENTS THAT GENERATE ANTIBIOTIC MULTI-RESISTANCE
3/16/04: United Poultry Concerns Letter In Harper's Magazine , April 2004 Also: Important Thoughts from Deep Vegetarianism
11/12/03: Factory Farming Needs to End (by Virgil Butler)
9/29/03: Amnesty Plan on Pollution From Animal Farms
Intensive Poultry Production:Fouling The Environment
5/27/2002: LA Times Commentary: There's a Bone to Pick With Meat Eaters
1/14/2002: Comments to EPA on Dry Lots for Ducks Submitted By UPC
8/19/2000: Big Chicken and the Environment - WPost Letters
8/16/2000: Chickens, Manure Found Piled at Tyson - WPost Article

Washington Post - August 1-3 1999:

POULTRY'S PRICE

Farmer Bob Winkler composts dead chickens that will be used for fertilizer.
(By Frank Johnston – The Washington Post)

In This Series Sunday, August 1, 1999:
• An Unsavory Byproduct: Runoff and Pollution

Monday, August 2, 1999:
• Permitting a Pattern of Pollution
• Inside the Modern Poultry Plant
• Waste Trucked to Maryland

Tuesday, August 3, 1999:
• Who Pays for What's Thrown Away?
• From Farm to Slaughterhouse

Photo Gallery:
• The Poultry Industry
Map:
• Delmarva's Chicken Industry
Graphics:
• How Excess Nutrients Reach Bay
• How Nutrients Affect the Bay