We now have a new way to warn the public about -- and help stop -- chicken-seller Perdue's plans to daily and permanently release hazardous waste hexane into Pennsylvania air.
The short movie, "Perdue Vs. Pennsylvania," is today part of the Lancaster Five Minute Film Festival.
Sponsored by the Lancaster County Community Foundation, the festival draws attention to local issues by letting the public pick favorites from 29 short films now vying for "People's Choice" awards. Here's how you can help:
1. Today and until May 19, view the films and VOTE for your favorites at:
2. Please share the above link with family, friends, and everyone else you can, asking them to tell others via email, social media, websites, etc.
3. You may vote in each of four categories of films once a day through May 19. The film about Perdue is entered in the "amateur" category.
Votes will be taken into consideration when deciding which films will be screened starting at downtown Lancaster, Pa.'s "First Friday" celebration on June 6, 2014 from 5 to 9 p.m. -- and continuing through June 12, 2014 at:
Zoetropolis Art House & Theatre
315 West James Street
Lancaster, PA 17603
For free tickets to the Film Festival Launch Party on June 6, register here:
13 comments:
Somebody get these babies a pacifier!!!!!
I guess if perdue was poisoning your back yard you might think differently......
Should be eastern shore farmers vs Pennsylvania.
We're being taxed to clean up a bay polluted by the susquehanna river that factories in Pennsylvania dump into...
Clueless idiots.
Amen 6:29pm! Another reason why we should have an expensive toll coming over the C&D Canal and the Chesapeake Bay to the State of Marydel! Keep those left wingers out of our business.
purdue chickens already leave enough pollution here on the shore. why does a private company have the right to let their suppliers pollute so much?
clean it up!
Oh, and Tyson, Amick, Cargill, and all the other meat processors who make hydrogenated oils don't use Hexane?????
Really?
Don't forget Mountaire... throw them all in the pot while you're trying to concoct a scape goat!!!
Yes, pollution is awful and it's wrong. Here's the problem; if you push Perdue and Mountaire, they will leave. Then you all will be crying because thousands of people will lose their jobs. It's a double-edged sword.
8:13, I agree. However, are we to leave such information out of the public eye?
Where will they go though? The laws are federal.
Look up the Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative. When Pilgrims Pride left, the growers themselves took over the procession operation. This works out better in the long run because then more money is spread out in the community. As it stands with the contract growers they have to purchase through a company everything for operating like feed. Contract farming is the major cause of the blight on the eastern shore. Before it was the norm, the eastern shore was a prosperous agriculture area. Many businesses fed off the industry. When contract factory farming emerged the area went downhill.
That is one of the reasons Lancaster county farmers aren't interested in this plant. They all ready have several doing the same thing and don't want perdue coming in and paying high prices
(they can since they are to be given tax payers money to operate)
and then the other businesses having to close and then perdue setting the price lower for soybean.
This is what happened to the eastern shore poultry growers and why they are all broke. No competition left to sell their chickens to.
8:13 here, and Joe, I absolutely don't think that the information should be brushed under the rug. I don't think these companies should get tax breaks for "cleaning up" the mess that they originally created. I just think that we need to put our thinking caps on and figure out how to stop the pollution, while ensuring that these companies don't leave the area. Salisbury couldn't handle the loss if Perdue left and went to another state.
11:02, OK, so what's your answer? While I agree with what you have stated, how can it be accomplished.
It's articles like this one that really get me going. Allow me to explain.
In the United States WE the taxpayers are forced to financially fix the alleged global warming, cleaning the Chesapeake Bay and the list goes on and on.
Yet we do not, nor ever, go after such things that CAUSE the problems from those actually responsible.
For example, look at the Bay. The MAJORITY of actual pollution comes DOWNSTREAM from as far as Up State New York! Yet WE are punished, charged fees and taxes to FIX something we can NEVER fix because WE aren't causing the majority of pollution in the Bay.
Look at Japan and China and the pollution they cause. Russia has a nuclear fallout that has spread to the Unite States, yet it's HUSHED by our Federal Government.
Now, you don't see other countries being FORCED or TAXED to stop their pollution, so WHY do we have a United Nations??????
The American Government is flat out BS! Start putting pressure on the United Nations and other Countries and MAYBE I'll start listening. Start fining New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware for polluting the Bay and MAYBE I'll start listening.
Until then, O'Mall and Obama are full of SH!T.
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