Farmers want ‘Big Chicken’ held responsible 
Posted: 7:46 pm Thu, July 29, 2010
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In addition to just having to take responsibility for their externalized costs of pollution, Big Chicken needs to also take responsibility for all the ways they push responsibility out of their ledgers: labor conditions of the farmers, quality of life for the chickens, and the impacts their contract-farms have on local communities (i.e., more money needs to stay in the farming communities to develop local resources such as school and public safety, with fewer profits going back to Big Chicken). Getting Big Chicken to own up to and pay for its environmental crimes is a good start, but it’s only a start.