This is long overdue, as the poultry industry dumps more than a billion pounds of waste annually into the Chesapeake Bay. Even a large waterway can absorb only so much shock.
Poultry produces more liquid waste than all of Maryland's human population.
Worse yet, the waste is laden with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In Ms. Huslin's story, the industry suggests burning the waste as an alternative. This sounds like rhetoric from other socially irresponsible industries. Most of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States are converted to livestock manure. In the meantime, our land loses more topsoil every year.