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Adapted from Feedstuffs, April 5, 1999, 5--"Maryland's Department
of Environment plans to make that state the first to legally bind
chicken processors [Perdue, Tyson, etc.] to the litter management
of farmers who raise chickens for them." These processors
"strongly object to legal responsibility" for the dead chickens,
manure, and other pollution they generate. The National Chicken
Council called Maryland's plan to force the billion-dollar
chicken companies to bear some of the cost of their own pollution
under provisions of the federal Clean Water Act "totally
inappropriate."
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