Title: Green Screen for Poultry Farms (Nov,2008.)
Summary:
In Nov. 2008,the Environmental Health Perspectives published an article by George Malone and Paul H. Patterson about managing poultry farm pollution in The Delmarva Peninsula, near Maryland.
Topic: Sustainable Agriculture
Category: Academic research
What is it?
This is an article published in the Nov 2008 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives
Publication Information:
Environmental Health Perspectives • VOLUME 116 | NUMBER 11 | November 2008
Green Screen for Poultry Farms (nov,2008.)
Author:
Penn State poultry scientist Paul H. Patterson
Location:
This article is in the print form of Environmental Health Perspectives • VOLUME 116 | NUMBER 11 | November 2008
Accessed: March 12th 2009 2pm
Support:
Poultry specialist: George Malone
Bill Rohrer : Program administrator for Delaware’s Nutrient
Management Commission
Penn State poultry scientist Paul H. Patterson
These sources all played an equal part under the American Chemical Society(ACS) in researching an effective way to reduce the local poultry industries impact on the local communities and environment ecosystems. The ACS hosted the 2008 of the meeting of the researchers and delegated projects and responsibilities to Patterson, Rohrer and Malone.
Audience and Agenda:
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a non-profit organization that publishes a monthly peer reviewed academic journal that focuses on environmental health issues.
“EHP‘s mission is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most current and credible news of the field.” (EHP)
EHP’s Journal has an impact factor of 5.86 and their website receives 4.5 million online hits a month.
Usefulness:
This source and its respective research was done to help the environment and the communities that lived near the poultry farms. It was done in reaction to over whelming pollution levels in the The Delmarva Peninsula. Malone and Rohrer believe that Molane’s vegetative environmental buffer (VEB) can drastically reduce the level of air pollution on the farm and in surrounding communities. What they neglect to mention is why they are simply fixing the symptoms and not the cause. I think there are simply too many birds in one place, and no amount of VEB solve it. Until the agricultural planing in the Delmarva Peninsula falls in line with The Seven Dimensions of Sustainable Agriculture (N.Perlas, 1993) the area will always have pollution problems.
Works Cited:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)
Filed under: Source Notes
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