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OK: Poultry Fight Gets National Exposure

Now, the chickens have come to roost, as Oklahoma wants a federal judge to stop 13 Arkansas-based poultry companies from dropping any more chicken litter in a once-pristine watershed.

The preliminary injunction request is part of the state’s 2005 lawsuit against the $2 billion poultry operation here — including Tyson Foods Inc., the world’s largest meat producer, Cargill Inc., George’s Inc. and Simmons Foods Inc._ for polluting with chicken waste, which contains bacteria, antibiotics, growth hormones and harmful metals.

The Oklahoma-Arkansas region supplies roughly 2 percent of the nation’s poultry and is one of several regions nationally where the industry is most concentrated.

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