SNOW HILL – “Everybody’s happy and pro-farm until it’s in their backyard.”
That, Worcester County resident Harold Scrimgeour says, is why he’s proposed a text amendment that would tighten regulations on poultry operations. Whether his suggestions are adopted or not, Scrimgeour wants to see something on the books as CAFOs — Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations — are becoming more common. According to Scrimgeour the county’s existing regulations aren’t even as tight as the ones poultry companies impose on chicken farms.
“We need better buffers than what the county currently has,” he said. “We are way less strict than the industry.”
Scrimgeour worked with officials from the Worcester County Department of Development Review and Permitting to develop a text amendment to increase requirements for poultry farms being established in the county. Not a chicken farmer himself, Scrimgeour said much of what’s in his text amendment came from similar legislation in neighboring jurisdictions.
“A lot of my guidelines piggybacked with what they came up with,” he said.
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6 comments:
If you don't want to live in the country and it's way of life then go back to the city. Simple as that. This reminds me of the Muslim and other Immigrants coming to the US. They want what we have but they demand we change our way of life to accommodate their desires and way of life. Quit trying to change peoples way of life because you don't like it. We never ask you to move here. All you think about is regulate the Farmer. Farmers can no longer subdivide their way to accommodate you and now you try to intimidate and dictate your desires and wants against the Farmer. Love the Shore or leave it the same way you entered and don't return. We don't need the likes of your kind.
My family has been here on the shore long before Big Chicken began raping the shore. So, why should we move?
The great news is that permitting has begun, PMT has started, zoning is being tightened up and people are becoming aware of how much their tax dollars are going to Big Chicken.
In the next couple years enforcement of the CAFO "zero" discharge permit is going to be increased by us citizens being watchful.
August 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM
< mic drop >
August 13, 2016 at 3:15 PM
You must be so proud.
Yes, yes, I am! And we are just getting started.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yes, yes, I am! And we are just getting started.
August 13, 2016 at 5:56 PM
oh good. I can hardly wait
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