Poultry Industry Pollution
In the state of Maryland, the poultry industry produces 650 million
pounds of chicken manure every year and this has sparked a fierce debate
between environmentalists and them. Gerald W. Winegrad, a public policy
professor at the University of Maryland and former state senator said,
“We don’t let hog or dairy farms spread their waste unregulated, and we
wouldn’t let a town of 25,000 people dump human manure untreated on open
lands,” ... “So why should we allow a farm with 150,000 chickens do
it?”. This manure has already contaminated the Chesapeake bay and as the
phosphorous and nitrogen levels in the bay have grown, so have the algae
that deplete oxygen needed by other aquatic life, which has led to a
crab population fall of 70 percent.
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focus on poultry industry pollution
The manure produces by animal agriculture goes largely unregulated
and is creating havoc in God's Creation, damaging our flora, fauna and
many essential resources such as water and air. By adopting a
plant-based diet we help reduce the number of birds raised for food, and
therefore, reduce the pollution produced by their manure.
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