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Ronald Reagan's words apply to Feed Plant: Trust but verify Make up your own mind on Tyson Foods entrance into Adair County through its wholly owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress. Today, the information is online. A starting point is in Wikipedia: Tyson Foods/Controversies, in Wikipedia. We're asking readers to do the research and send their opinions. Keep an open mind, both ways, but be aware that events are moving quickly and it may be out of citizens hands in a short time. At CM we'll do our best to get the facts on the costs, the tax breaks, the incentives, and to help weigh the benefits and the downside. We'd like to know both sides of the controversy. -ED WAGGENER By Ed Waggener CM Commentary Now is the time to do your own research and decide whether the effort by the Columbia/Adair County Economic Development Board's to bring what is believed to be - they still won't say publicly what it is - a chicken feed plant to the Green River Commerce Park. So far, there isn't enough information available to know whether the plant will be, long term, a plus for the county, either economically or environmentally. Fortunately, Google is around, and those who care can research almost every aspect of what happens when a feed plant comes into a county - best evidence is that the company is Cobb-Vantress, a wholly owned subsidiary of giant chicken producer Tyson Foods. CACEDA's leadership is telling Adair Countians, in effect to trust them, they wouldn't bring any industry into the county which would hurt anybody. The board is well meaning. But the secrecy surrounding the deal does bring President Reagan's advice to mind: Trust but verify. When the deal is inked, it will likely set the course for how Adair County develops. Maybe nobody cares about the effect of the Cobb-Vantress feed plant and the Tyson developments to follow. Maybe no one cares about whether the plant will have a deleterious effect on tourism, on technology development, on the county's largest industry - today it's education, on air quality, on the amounts of pesticides in the air, on the cancer clusters surrounding chicken production in some areas - but we think they do. Maybe no one cares about the stifling effect the plant may have on a growing Assisted Transportation Systems, a plant which has the promise to be another IMO. But it should be a concern. So far, the industrial chicken farms in Adair County have apparently not had the deleterious side effects they have had in so many other parts of the country. So far, they seem to have added significantly to agricultural prosperity. That's good. But we'd suggest that anyone who hopes to enjoy life in Adair County as we know it today also examine the history of industrialized production of chicken and know that the safeguards to protect the environment are in place before CACEDA makes a deal. Either way, it could change the course of the county forever. - Ed Waggener This story was posted on 2013-04-12 05:28:37
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