Jeff on News 2
In anticipation of the public meeting this week, we invited channel 2 to come out and interview Jeff. They aired a short segment on Monday evening. Sorry about the ad before the story, it’s out of my control.
In anticipation of the public meeting this week, we invited channel 2 to come out and interview Jeff. They aired a short segment on Monday evening. Sorry about the ad before the story, it’s out of my control.
Jeff has just learned that the neighbor up the hill behind his house has made a deal to put two industrial chicken houses on his land. For whatever reason, the location chosen was next to the property line and on the same side of the hill that runs off into Jeff’s place. The threat of…
“Composted” chicken litter is not compost or a fertilizer. It is a toxic waste product from a horrible industrial process known as commercial chicken houses. The small and poisons create ill feelings with neighbors and it pollutes the land and water, besides the air. The only place it should be spread is on the heads…
[The EPA admits freely the potential dangers of CAFOs in this short, concise statement. –Alan] How Do CAFOs Impact the Environment? Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are facilities where large numbers of poultry, swine, cattle or other animal types are confined within a much smaller area than traditional pasture operations. The concentration of the wastes…
I have moved. I apologize for the sporadic columns this summer, but I believe I’ll get back into the swing of things soon. There is certainly a lot to write about. First of all, I haven’t moved very far, just a few miles downstream. We spent the last year fixing up the old Purcell house on…
The Kirbytown community, made up of the neighbors surrounding the location for the industrial chicken operation we’ve been contesting, threw a fund raiser on April 8th to help study the impact of living near these complexes that house 40,000 chickens at a time. With free range birds from Wedge Oak Farms in Lebanon as the…
Here is what Cobb wrote back to a letter writer, who was kind enough to share Cobb’s response to their letter with us: “Thank you for recent letter. We respect your right to express your views about plans by a Macon County family farmer to build chicken houses near Jeff Poppen’s property; however, we also…
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We can’t let this happen, Tennessee is too beautiful for it. I love you and I love your farm and the spring, I pray everything is going to work out.