HUMBOLDT, Tenn. – Not every town wants a chicken plant.
In Tonganoxie, Kan., residents showed their distaste for a Tyson Foods chicken plant last year by posting "No Tyson in Tongie" signs in yards and mailing pictures of dead chickens to a county official. Among their concerns were water pollution, odor, infrastructure costs and animal cruelty.
When local officials, in response, revoked hundreds of millions of dollars to support the Tyson project, Tyson advanced its plans for a $300 million plant in Humboldt, a West Tennessee town located in Gibson County.
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