We're asking Maryland legislators to reject Senate Bill 841/House Bill 1312 when the bills come up for a vote in their committees.

These bills are misguided in labeling the family-owned farms in Delmarva's $3.5 billion chicken community "industrial poultry operations," and by putting a blanket moratorium on new or expanding chicken farms, they put the entire economy of the Eastern Shore -- and Maryland -- at risk and harm the livelihoods of Maryland's more than 600 chicken growers, more than 4,800 people directly employed by the chicken industry and hundreds of allied businesses or suppliers.

Please oppose Senate Bill 841/House Bill 1312.