Friends of Rural New York

Remember that chicken farm issue in Tioga County? One of the neighbors emailed us with the information that:
“We did flood badly..and the portion of the farm where the chicken barns were supposed to go was a LAKE!”

Now what do you suppose would have happened to all those drowned birds and all the chickenshit? (antibiotics, herbicides, fungicides etc. etc)
Yup. Right into the river!
The guys at the New York Farm Bureau were jumping up and down to get the Drost chicken CAFO built. Of course, the New York Farm Bureau has never seen a corporate operation they didn’t like.
And our ever-vigilant guardians at the Department of Conservation were certainly going to approve this travesty.
Duh.......this is a FLOOD PLAIN!!!
Thank you to the stalwart neighbors and the courageous local legislators that kept the Drost livestock factory out.