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WADESBORO Anson County Emergency Services was called out to U.S. 74 Friday morning for a semi-truck spill, the second in one week.
The spill occurred around 10:30 a.m., according to Rodney Diggs, Anson County Emergency Services Director. Diggs said the driver of a contracted Valley Protein truck slammed on his breaks, causing chicken by-products to be lunged out of the top of truck.
“(This) happens quite often, especially in the summer,” Diggs said. “That stuff sits in the truck for a day or two before the chicken processing plant moves it and it just sits there and swells there in the heat.”
To paraphrase Shakespeare: Something is rotten in the state of Maryland and all over the Delmarva Peninsula. And it is so rotten that it is contaminating the air people breathe, the water they drink, and the region’s creeks and the bay.
Workers face off against rendering company in rural North Carolina
Photo courtesy of Chris Hollis
In tiny Bertie County, Valley Proteins is one of the only employers. Employees say the working conditions are terrible, and now they’re fighting back.
Herman Purvis starts work each day a little before 8 in the morning, driving the first of what will likely total several hundred miles over the course of his 11-hour shift from his home in Windsor, a small town in northeastern North Carolina’s Bertie County, to the Valley Proteins plant in the nearby town of Lewiston Woodville.
Pictured above: Chris Hollis is among the truck drivers involved in organizing a union at Valley Proteins’ animal waste rendering operations in North Carolina.