A citizen group scores a victory in NE Georgia

Pilgrim Pride’s decision to abandon Franklin County, Georgia as a location for a rendering plant is being viewed in that county as a victory for people in the community who want a hand to decide what happens there.  Pilgrim’s backed out of considering Franklin County for a rendering and pet food ingredient plant at I-85 and highway 320.  The citizens’ efforts, led by Elizabeth Busby, was called “Stop the Rendering.”  A rendering plant is a processing operation that recycles dead animals into products from human food to bio-diesel.  Primary contributors to the facilities are the remains and waste from slaughterhouses.