To the Editor,
As our Hardy County Commissioners struggle with a way to fund the Hardy County Emergency Ambulance Authority, there is a simple solution to help fund our Hardy County ambulance service.
Pilgrim’s Pride is the major source of our water, air, and ground pollution causing health problems for all Hardy County residents especially our children and elderly.
Any corporation that is partly the cause of health problems in its community should bear the cost to help offset the shortfall that Hardy County is experiencing.
The Hardy County Commission should assess Pilgrim’s Pride a two cent assessment for each chicken processed at the Moorefield Pilgrim’s Pride plant to benefit the ambulance authority. This will generate about thirty thousand dollars and put Pilgrim’s Pride on notice that polluting Hardy County is unacceptable.
Lloyd S. Fultz Jr.
Old Fields, West Virginia
