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Poultry industry critic will testify

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From The Associated Press:

An economist who claims the poultry industry knew for years about the environmental harm chicken waste was causing in an Oklahoma watershed will be allowed to testify in a federal pollution trial, a judge ruled Thursday.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell will allow testimony from Auburn University professor Robert Taylor, who claims poultry companies wield almost complete control over their contract growers, and that it was better for their bottom line to dispose of the bird waste in the Illinois River watershed.

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