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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Absolutely. Chicken manure from factory farms is so full of anitibiotics and 
other nasty stuff that I would never use it. I also don't consider any 
animal confinment situation to be 'farming'. It's factory work.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chicken farm pollution


> You won't here that from me. The thing that this story misses is that
> this is not good, healthy manure. I've thought about trying to hook up
> with a poultry factory around here to get some manure that my fields
> badly need, but am afraid of all the other stuff that's in it.
>
> We need a push to increase local farmers raising pastured poultry,
> where that manure grows grass to raise pastured beef. These are not
> chicken farmers, they are ex-farmers who mortgaged their land to build
> factory farm buildings and are at the mercy of Tyson/Perdue. for their
> livelihood.
>
> Rob - Va
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:
> > O.K., where's the round of boo hisses.  Where's the complaints that 
> > Maryland
> > is going to make it impossible for these chicken farmers, blah, blah, 
> > blah?
> > What?  No complaints about dogooding ex-hippies?  Or is all that angst 
> > only
> > reserved for laws passed in California?
> >
> > Lynda, in a pissy mood <g>
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