To get to the other side.

The Arkansas Times blog posts another win for Oklahoma in the battle against irresponsible poultry companies fouling our waterways.

U.S. Magistrate Sam Joyner today rejected motions filed by Arkansas poultry companies that would have prevented Oklahoma from taking soil and water samples from chicken farms as part of its pollution lawsuit against the companies.

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said they will begin taking the samples as soon as they can. Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe, who has tried to intervene in behalf of the poultry companies, had no comment.

However, some visitor to that blog had a comment:

I like Beebe

I hate Oklahoma

But Edmondson is a good Democrat and is dead on in this lawsuit.

And its not about protecting the farmers…the farmers are treated like sharecroppers by Tyson’s. They have no problems taking all the profits while putting all the risk on the local farmer and then when somebody like the EPA steps in Tyson’s hides behind the independent contractor agreement and pretends they have absolutely no connection.

Tyson has made a nice penny in this gambit I think it might be time they help the farmer and our environment

I agree with him on two things.