Dive Brief:

• Residents of Cumberland County, NC, turned out en masse to protest a proposed chicken processing plant near the Cape Fear River.
• Sanderson Farms, which processes nearly 10 million chickens per week at plants in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, is considering building a $113 million plant on the outskirts of Fayetteville. 
• More than 1,000 residents have singed a petition opposing the plant. 

Dive Insight:

Chicken processing is a messy, smelly business. And it's never very popular with the neighbors. Even communities in agriculture-friendly states like North Carolina can get upset when a new plant is proposed.

And in communities that aren't noted for being pro-agriculture, like the suburbs of New York City, new plants can tear a community in two.