Bravo, Attorney General of OK.

Jane Clark wrote:

>Defenders of Wildlife
>Rural Updates!
>January 17, 2005
>
>Joining together to defend wildlife, family farms, and healthy and
>delicious food.
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>FARM BUREAU AD CAMPAIGN - "DELAY AND DECEIT"
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>According to an article in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the
>Attorney General of Oklahoma last week cancelled talks with the
>poultry industry over how to achieve clean water standards in the
>state's rivers. The move followed the airing, during the Orange
>Bowl, of a Farm Bureau-sponsored ad which stated that the
>measures sought by the state would "put farmers out of business
>and drive 12,000 jobs out of Oklahoma." Attorney General
>Edmonson had been seeking a consent decree that would specify
>measures to be taken by Tyson's, Cargill and four other companies
>to reduce phosphorous pollution from poultry litter. Calling the
>television ad campaign "delay and deceit," Edmonson said,  "My
>position is the industry must bear the costs of removal, disposal
>and storage of the excess chicken litter that cannot be safely land
>applied. The industry and the Farm Bureau believe those costs fall
>to the farmer. Farm Bureau is carrying dirty water for the industry.
>It's clear that Farm Bureau represents the big companies first, the
>farmers second and the environment somewhere after last."
>
>The article is available at:
>http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg&section=News&storyid=104106
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