Environmental Impact of the Poultry Industry

Environmental Impact of the Poultry Industry

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Intensive Poultry Production: Fouling the Environment (Updated 2009)
"Farm Animal Angst" on One Green Planet by Karen Davis, PhD, President of UPC 13 February 2012
Comfortably Unaware: global depletion and food responsibility . . . What you choose to eat is killing our planet 21 December 2011
Myth of Sustainable Poultry and Danger of the Local 10 December 2010
Environmental Impact of Animals Raised for Food Recalculated: World Watch Magazine Links Human Diet & Greenhouse Gases 2 November 2009
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) - What You Need to Know (A Report by United Poultry Concerns 2007)
05/15/09: Recent Podcasts Featuring UPC President Karen Davis: The Little Chicken Named Viva Who Started It All & Why Industrial Chicken Production is Wrong
7/02/08: ENVIRONMENTAL FACTS AND STATISTICS ABOUT INDUSTRIALIZED ANIMAL FARMS
6/18/08: “Food crisis solution: Go vegan” on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” June 17.

6/15/07: Every Living Beating Heart

4/17/06: Greenpeace Investigation Links European Fast Food to Amazon Destruction

6/30/05: United Poultry Concerns Sticks Up For Poodles in Earth First!
6/27/05: Sierra Club Touts Turning Slaughterhouse Chicken Feathers Into Plastic: "The Perfect Fix" to help the Poultry Industry Get MORE RICH
2/02/05: Tyson Chicken Held Accountable for Pollution
5/17/04: POULTRY LITTER HARBORS AGENTS THAT GENERATE ANTIBIOTIC MULTI-RESISTANCE
3/16/04: United Poultry Concerns Letter In Harper's Magazine , April 2004 Also: Important Thoughts from Deep Vegetarianism
11/12/03: Factory Farming Needs to End (by Virgil Butler)
9/29/03: Amnesty Plan on Pollution From Animal Farms
Intensive Poultry Production:Fouling The Environment
5/27/2002: LA Times Commentary: There's a Bone to Pick With Meat Eaters
1/14/2002: Comments to EPA on Dry Lots for Ducks Submitted By UPC
8/19/2000: Big Chicken and the Environment - WPost Letters
8/16/2000: Chickens, Manure Found Piled at Tyson - WPost Article

Washington Post - August 1-3 1999:

POULTRY'S PRICE

Farmer Bob Winkler composts dead chickens that will be used for fertilizer.
(By Frank Johnston – The Washington Post)

In This Series

Sunday, August 1, 1999:
• An Unsavory Byproduct: Runoff and Pollution

Monday, August 2, 1999:
• Permitting a Pattern of Pollution
• Inside the Modern Poultry Plant
• Waste Trucked to Maryland

Tuesday, August 3, 1999:
• Who Pays for What's Thrown Away?
• From Farm to Slaughterhouse

Photo Gallery:
• The Poultry Industry
Map:
• Delmarva's Chicken Industry
Graphics:
• How Excess Nutrients Reach Bay
• How Nutrients Affect the Bay