Unfortunately, since the early Eighties, the weather media has felt the need to manufacture weather horrors to match the real ones, like Katrina, and today has a big problem of the Chicken Little sky is falling variety.

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The county is a big poultry producer, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused several chicken and turkey farmers in the area of polluting water that will eventually find its way into Chesapeake Bay.

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In economic booms when money is flush, consumers are more apt to buy luxury cars and big TVs, eat beef rather than chicken and take pricey vacations, all of which lift the overall consumer prices.

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And sure, maybe the wife doesn't even want a dry-aged rib-eye or a big platter of that buttermilk fried chicken I'm making about once a week.

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