SNOW HILL -- In the wake of last month’s ruling in favor of a local farm family in its case with the Waterkeeper Alliance last month, several Worcester County Commissioners came out in favor of the judgment and discussed the future of the poultry industry on the Eastern Shore.
“This case seems to have losers all the way around and I hope that we can go forward,” Environmental Programs Director Bob Mitchell told the commissioners Wednesday.
The case, which also included Hudson Farm’s contract employer Perdue Farms, has been in the works since 2009 and has been considered controversial from the start. In 2009, the Waterkeeper Alliance claimed that chicken litter containing pollutants was illegally discharged into a tributary of the Pocomoke River through a pile of assumed chicken manure. However, subsequent investigation revealed that the pile was actually bio-solids obtained from the Ocean City Wastewater Treatment plant.
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What is the difference human poo run off or chickin poo run off?
ReplyDeleteHuman is much more dangerous for our health
ReplyDeletewhy bother "coming out" AFTER the ruling?
ReplyDeleteMost of the human poo-poo comes from the Potomac River. It begins at the North Prong in Washington D.C., not far from the White House.
ReplyDeletePoultry litter consists primarily of manure, feathers, spilled feed and bedding material that accumulate on the floors of the buildings that house chickens and turkeys. It can contain disease-causing bacteria, antibiotics, toxic heavy metals, restricted feed ingredients including meat and bone meal from dead cattle, and even foreign objects such as dead rodents, rocks, nails and glass. Few of these hazards are eliminated by any processing that might occur before use as feed. The resulting health threats include the spread of mad cow disease and related human neurological diseases, the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the potential for exposure to toxic metals, drug residues, and disease-causing bacteria.
ReplyDeleteNow, I don't know which poop is worse. Nobody intends on eating any BUT, if you eat chicken, you eat poop.
I found during research that cows are/were being fed chicken poop.
Shrimp has been/still is, fed chicken poop. Yum.
Ted Nugent always says we don't know what we eat from the grocery store. It appears he is correct.
" toxic heavy metals, restricted feed ingredients including meat and bone meal from dead cattle, and even foreign objects such as dead rodents, rocks, nails and glass. Few of these hazards are eliminated by any processing that might occur before use as feed. The resulting health threats include the spread of mad cow disease and related human neurological diseases, the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and the potential for exposure to toxic metals, drug residues, and disease-causing bacteria.
ReplyDeleteNow, I don't know which poop is worse. Nobody intends on eating any BUT, if you eat chicken, you eat poop.
I found during research that cows are/were being fed chicken poop.
Shrimp has been/still is, fed chicken poop. Yum."
I am of the opinion that every one of God's creatures is designed to perform a vital role in our environmental scenario. this includes bottom feeders, like catfish, who have a digestive system that processes dead fish and other jetsam at the bottom. There are vultures visible every day eating rotting road kill. Their digestive systems are made for that. Ever wonder why they are NOT birds of prey? DUH. This is how Nature works! If cows like to eat chicken manure, (I think it would not pass MY taste test) then let them eat chicken cake! Is there a study that finds they can't digest or acquire disease from this? If they want to eat shit, then let them eat shit! I fail to understand the "problem" here without physical evidence.
I have eaten catfish from the river downtown before I learned of the frequent WWTP overspills, but have never gotten sick. I did notice an extra layer of yellow slime on the fish I caught, probably to protect them from the environment, but the meat was good.
God does this for us.