3-18 IAN Chicken Production
Let businesses do business as long as it’s legal, regulated by the businesses’ own standards and as long as the businesses pay taxes. I don’t know if the anointed one would like that kind of independence from government control over business but the folks in Minidoka County are delighted with it. I’m David Sparks. I’ll be right back with the story. I’m not going to try and tell you that life as a chicken in the poultry industry is perfect. I won’t say that about my life either. But I will say that as long as we eat meat and eggs, there’s always going to be a part of the story in producing such foods that can be exposed and spun by animal welfare people and animal activists that can make things sound atrocious. California has ratcheted up its animal welfare laws and it’s having an impact on the poultry business there. Idaho may be a beneficiary. Dan Stapelman
Chairman of the Board in Minidoka County is of the mind set that government shouldn’t try to regulate businesses as long as the companies meet state guidelines for clean air and water: “We do have that attitude we have a real good planning and zoning group in our county and a number of years ago they sat down and with some advanced foresight made us a county and zoning ordinance and designated some areas in the county for certain things and not for certain things.”
