The poultry industry, just one small part of our factory farm nation,
has a massive waste problem. Today, national consumer group Food &
Water Watch criticized the plans of poultry processing giant Perdue
Agribusiness and Fibrowatt LLC to build a power plant on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore that generates electricity from chicken manure.
“Perdue and Fibrowatt are billing poultry litter incineration as a
way to solve the problem of managing excessive amounts of animal waste,
but it’s no solution at all,” said Food & Water Watch executive
director Wenonah Hauter. “Taxpayers are about to subsidize an industry
that has choked the bay with its wastes and now literally will choke our
communities’ air.”
Food & Water Watch’s Poultry Incineration: An Unsustainable Solution,
a detailed fact sheet, describes the many problems that make this
project a bad decision for lawmakers to support, and reveals that
poultry litter incineration might produce as much or more toxic air
emissions than coal plants.
