Critics try to apply nuisance law to poultry farms

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Critics try to apply nuisance law to poultry farms

 

MARION, Ky.

 

By The Associated Press

 

Residents near one of the state’s largest factory chicken farms have taken a new

approach to battling their neighbor over the noxious smells.

 

They are calling on the city to invoke the same nuisance ordinances typically

reserved for barking dogs, stray cows and loud neighbors.

 

Five Marion residents filed a complaint against Wardlaw Broilers and Tyson

Foods. Tyson owns almost a half-million broiler chickens trucked in to be fed

before slaughter.

 

The fines could reach a maximum $11.25 million per day under a change in the law

that allows the city to fine companies up to $25 per chicken per day. The barns

typically hold 450,000 chickens.

 

" It’s the first time it happened to us, " said Tyson spokesman Ed Nicholson at

the company’s Springdale, Ark., headquarters.

 

Residents allege the overpowering stench from chicken waste amounts to illegal

trespass.

 

 

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