Put this in perspective. The riverkeepers, self- proclaimed watchdogs of the Bay, have just spent three years and tens-of-thousands of dollars arguing the bay pollution comes from manure carried in the dust exhausted from poultry houses; not the piles of cow manure that the dust is flying over, not the huge uncovered pile of Ocean City sludge that brought them to the farm in the first place and not the millions of gallons of sewage discharged during WWTP overflows! No calling attention to that would make our beloved Governor look like an uncaring, incompetent fool.
Frankly, it is total hogwash and the riverkeepers need to be run out of town, just like the other snake oil salesmen of the late 1800s, early 1900s.
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If you were to look at Salisbury only, clean water would be as easy as making the City of Salisbury comply with the standards the rest of us live by with regard to the WWTP and making the Perdue plant on Rt 50 clean up their discharge. These two corrections would likely give Salisbury the cleanest water on the East Coast.
ReplyDeleteWhile entitled to your opinion, You are way off base- it is a combination of all the things that you mentioned, in addition to YOUR excessive poultry litter.
ReplyDeleteWould love to know how much money the "Save The Bay" staffers and board members have siphoned off that "non-profit". Bet the money people have donated could replace every WWTP in the Mid-Atlantic area. WHen will people wise up to the fact that the Non-profits are primarily just an income producer for those who run it?
ReplyDeleteI agree with 12:24 and it's a combination and we all can do something to improve the waterways.
ReplyDeleteThe poultry companies are forever trying to pass the buck and that's what is annoying to me.
The poultry companies are forever trying to pass the buck and that's what is annoying to me.
ReplyDeleteNovember 1, 2012 12:43 PM
They annoy me too for different reasons. The are about as bad as paper plate makers who think their product is gold and the employee's are somehow special, head and shoulders above other folk.
So glad I don't have to associate with either of them now.
when you run the poultry businesses out of business, what are we going to eat around here. next they'll go after the beef producers and we'll all be forced to become a bunch of dumba$$ vegans... ...that is after we harvest and consume the riverkeepers.
ReplyDelete2:56 If what you said ever happens then the growers could do what they did in VA when Pilgrim's Pride pulled out.
ReplyDelete"Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative was incorportated in the Summer of 2004. Our story is one of perserverance in the face of adversity.
In April of 2004 Pilgrims Pride, the owner of the Hinton Processing Facility, announced the closing of Operations within six months. The Impact of the closure would be felt by nearly 170 farms, 1,800 employees and indirectly through the entire Shenandoah Valley. Following this announcement, the owners of many of these farms banded together and VPGC was incorporated.
Though faced with many challenges, VPGC found support in the local farm-oriented community, and raised the funds necessary to purchase the Hinton Processing plant and Feed Mill located in Broadway, Va. On November 29, 2004 VPGC began processing turkeys.
The farmers that make up the cooperative have been growing turkeys for decades. Many of these farms have been passed down through generations. Today the only difference is they grow an even better turkey and the farmers keep the profits."
The problem, in part, with criticizing human waste is that we all are part of the problem.
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