Because of their concerns about the ramifications of proposed regulations that would limit the use of chicken manure on farms, the Worcester County Commissioners are requesting that a comprehensive economic impact study be conducted to determine their full impact and cost.
The commissioners are also asking for a meeting with Sec. Buddy Hance of the Maryland Department of Agriculture to voice their displeasure about the Phosphorus Management Tool, the proposed regulations that would impact agriculture, a vital industry in the county.
“There’s no economic study being done,” Commissioner Virgil Shockley, a chicken farmer, said Tuesday. “We can ask for the economic side to be looked at before any implementation takes place.”
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Those across the bridge want the poultry farms gone from their resort here on the Eastern Shore. Maryland wants to figure out another TAX to impose on a struggling business already over regulated!!!
Well, the law writers couldn't make it out here because it was raining out there on the Big Scary Bridge. But, they said it would be okay for the State to store big piles of chicken manure on their land, but the Hudsons?, well NNNNOOOOOOOO freaking way, or they will sue the pants off them.
I'm beginning to get it now.
It is time that the chicken farmers took responsibility for destroying the Chesapeake bay with their manure runoff. It is called responsible farming, stepping up and taking on the responsibility for what they have done. While they have continued to thrive and pollute the air and water, the oyster beds and the fishing has declined in the bay due to their continued negligence. There are actually places in the bay that are dead, there is no life and no oxygen in these areas. The selfishness of a few farmers on this shore, have caused the decline of good fishing, oyster-ing, crabbing, and overall health of the Chesapeake bay. Everyone that screams about the poor chicken industry should remember your not the only people here on the shore, waterman have to make a living also, chicken farmers are selfish, inconsiderate, ass wipes, who don’t give a dam about anyone but themselves. Ever wonder why the eastern shore has an unusually higher instances of cancer than any other state or region? It is from being exposed to chicken contaminates, in the waste, not only do the farmers put it on the fields, but it contaminates the surrounding air we are forced to breath. That stink your smelling from the chicken houses and farm fields, is called airborne contaminates, partials of chicken feces is being breathed in by you! You might just as well have a nice big bowl of it for breakfast! Everyone here on the shore is being poisoned by this. No one wants to talk about it and change how chicken farmers should farm, because they employ so many people here on the shore. But the bay, oysters, crabs, fish, and the people are being slowly killed off by the greedy Chicken industry!
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