A Proposed Maryland Law Wants To Make Big Chicken Producers Responsible For Dealing With Their Poop

The Delmarva Peninsula, which juts out into the Atlantic Ocean along the eastern edge of Maryland, is a poultry producing hot spot. Home to industry giant Perdue, the country’s third-largest chicken producer, it’s also one of the most densely concentrated areas in the United States for industrial chicken farming. In 2014, according to industry statistics, Maryland produced 287,800,000 chickens — 48 chickens for every Maryland resident. All of those chickens leave Maryland farmers and residents with a heaping problem in the form of chicken manure — by some estimates, the state produces more than 650 million pounds of chicken manure each year....
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