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Oklahoma State Question 777 was a referendum on a proposed amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution held in November 2016. The referendum attempted to exempt agriculture and agribusiness from compliance with state laws passed in 2015 and later, unless a "compelling state interest" was involved. The referendum was hotly controversial.
Oklahoma has an estimated 11,000 poultry farms, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Only a fraction of those operations — about 1% — have 400 or more birds. Three massive farms ...
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Chickens remained primarily to provide eggs, mostly to the farmer (subsistence agriculture), with commercialization still largely unexplored. Farm flocks tended to be small because the hens largely fed themselves through foraging, with some supplementation of grain, scraps, and waste products from other farm ventures. Such feedstuffs were in ...
When California first enacted divorce laws in 1850, the only grounds for divorce were impotence, extreme cruelty, desertion, neglect, habitual intemperance, fraud, adultery, or conviction of a felony. [29] In 1969-1970, California became the first state to pass a purely no-fault divorce law, i.e., one which did not offer any fault divorce ...
Opponents of a proposed facility that would house 566,400 chickens at a time had argued a new application should fall under a new, strict law. State issues new water permit for proposed chicken ...
In November 2016, Oklahoma voters defeated a Right-to-Farm bill (State Question 777) which garnered just 39.7 percent of the vote. [12] [13] State Question 777 was heavily backed by the Oklahoma Farm Bureau and by voters in the Oklahoma panhandle where the giant multinational agribusiness Seaboard Corporation has a pork production plant. [14]
Chicken farm pollution causes a stir in South Carolina State agency ignored court decision, now seeks to ease chicken farm rules, critics say Skip to main content