Even before the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approves Perdue's application to release 208 tons a year of the hazardous neurotoxin hexane into public air, Perdue is already announcing:
"Perdue AgriBusiness is constructing a soybean grain elevator and processing plant in Conoy Township in Lancaster County. The plantis being built on 57 acres...."
-- From “About the Plant” at this current Perdue AgriBusiness site:
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That's not the most misleading thing about Perdue's above website, which doesn't honestly mention:
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"Long-term exposure to hexane, a toxic air pollutant, can cause permanent nerve damage in humans....
"Major sources are those that emit more than 10 tons a year...."
Perdue expects Pennsylvania to OK Perdue's being twenty times more than a major source of hexane by permanently releasing not just 10 but 208 tons a year of toxic hexane into public air!
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From 2000 to 2010 Perdue has already released at least 2,546 tons ofhexane into public air from only two soybean-processing plants in Virginia and Maryland!!!!!!!!!
Lancaster, Pa.
Ads target Conoy soybean-plant project:
Question safety of processing method
AD CRABLE Staff Writer | Updated 6 months ago
The president of a Pennsylvania-based organic poultry company has taken out full-page newspaper ads attacking the proposed Perdue soybean-processing plant in Conoy Township as a "dangerous project."
Bell & Evans is a competitor of Perdue. Its president and chairman, Scott Sechler Sr., criticized the proposed $59 million plant because it would use the solvent hexane to extract soybean oil from soybean hulls.
"Hexane is a chemical byproduct of the oil industry that is explosive, smells like model airplane glue and is very dangerous," Sechler said in about $10,000 worth of ads in Lancaster Farming and the Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
"In fact, it is considered a hazardous air pollutant by the EPA. In my opinion, products derived from hexane extraction or ethanol byproduct should be considered inhumane for humans or animals to consume."
The ads were titled, "Even Friends Can Sometimes Disagree." Bell & Evans is based in northern Lebanon County.
The Perdue facility would produce soy meal for animal feed as well as soy oil that could be used in the snack food industry and possibly for biodiesel fuel.
Sechler, a Berks County resident, said he quit using hexane in Bell & Evans chicken diets more than 25 years ago.
In an interview Thursday, he said hexane used to be the only known method for processing soybeans, but now there are better and safer ways.
"Every other way is a lot safer and produced a better product," he said. "That process is a thing of the past."
Sechler said there are more than a dozen soybean-processing plants in Pennsylvania alone that use extruders and presses rather than chemicals.
Hexane is not allowed in foods certified as organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
Sechler said Pennsylvania, which has approved an $8.75 million grant for the Perdue project, stands to make a big mistake in helping underwrite the project.
"Can you imagine an out-of-state company, like Perdue, trying to buy up all of the Pennsylvania crops of soybeans and asking farmers to abandon organic crops, corn, wheat, vegetables and other food crops to plant more soybeans?" Sechler said.
"Let's rethink this deal and do the right thing for all of us, including the animals and the environment."
He called on residents to contact local legislators, DEP, EPA and Gov. Tom Corbett and let them know they oppose the project.
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Well, we know the EPA is being used to push a Communist agenda by the Obama regime so we can not put much stock in their facts and figures.
Like everything else Obama does, it's LIES and inflated propaganda designed to create a facade of hate, distrust, envy, jealousy and fear. Just look at the insinuatory/accusatory narrative of the writer. Clearly they are anti chicken! Quick! Someone call PETA!!
The EPA and obama are under the control of Big Business 7:18. The communist agenda is to have all trade, commerce and services run by a handful of big corps. Contrary to what they want everyone to believe big business IS the EPA. Nixon came up with it so his corporate buddies could skirt the anti trust laws.
Ask yourself about the cancer rate on this peninsula. It ain't just cigarette smoking. (In fact, most I know who have died from cancer never smoked a day in their lives.)
And out local environmental guru - Fake Day -- now works for Perdue as its "governmental affairs" person.
They need to learn to take care of people better than they take care of their chicken!
EPA is in place to make sure not just anyone can become a developer only those who can pay to play.
Oh so Perdue got Jake Day elected and is rewarded with a job there ? Doesn't daddy Day work for Big Chicken too? So cozy so corrupt
I know of someone who is suffering from bladder cancer. They are from lower DE. While undergoing treatment at a Baltimore hospital they met a husband and wife from the lower shore both undergoing cancer treatment. The doctors told them all in no uncertain terms the high cancer rate is because the eastern shore is a "toxic waste dump" because of chicken manure.
Jake Day as an elected official in one of the most depressed areas in the nation should be ashamed to work at Perdue! This so called "major employer" is really a major contributor to the blight in the area. The handful of good paying jobs they offer does nothing to balance out the poverty level wages they pay to most of their employees.
I am as conservative as they come but I'll call out corporate welfare any day of the week. The tax payer are paying for their employees in the form of welfare. The stadium and the business school needs to be renamed in honor of the tax payers who are footing the bill for their employees. Plus I find their chicken to be putrid. It stinks for one thing and leaves a horrible odor on your hands after touching it raw. Then after you cook it, it's swimming in some kind of foul sea of liquid that it's fat. If I couldn't afford to eat REAL chicken I would eat grass before I ate that crap.
8:09:"The communist agenda is to have all trade, commerce and services run by a handful of big corps."
That's pretty much the exact opposite of how communism works.
No they are all in cahoots 4:09. Communism creates monopolies and then nationalizes (quasi really) the companies. The so called "capitalists" then end up funding the communists.
Propaganda would have people believe the corporatists are against communism but anyone who lived in Eastern Europe up until the 1970's can tell you the real story. The corporatists jumped upon communism as a way to not only retain their wealth but as a way to also gain power. They contributed greatly to it occurring.
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Do you have a clue?
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