A trial pitting environmentalists against an Eastern Shore farm and poultry giant Perdue Farms Inc. gets under way this week in federal court in Baltimore.
The Waterkeeper's Alliance claims Berlin-based Hudson Farm and Salisbury-based Perdue are polluting a waterway near the farm. Environmentalists and agriculture interests each say the trial that begins Tuesday could have far-reaching impact. Farm groups have said the suit could bankrupt the Hudson Farm and set a harmful precedent for other family farms. Environmentalists say poultry giants such as Perdue should be held responsible for pollution by their contract growers.
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Note to Purdue, seek another state who wants and needs the economic return. Let the green freaks run out the only viable industry left on the eastern shore leave town. What is left then, Ocean City. Watch the unemployment rate then go to 20% in a year, and Salisbury become little Baltimore.
Nice job folks,
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