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. > >FARM BUREAU AD CAMPAIGN - "DELAY AND DECEIT" > >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§ion=News&storyid=104106 > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: > http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.13 - Release Date: 1/16/2005 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp