At least two outbreaks in Tyson Foods poultry supplier operations

BY: ANITA WADHWANI – JANUARY 30, 2023 6:01 AM

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Will Burton, a Weakley County farmer, said the overbearing smell of rotting chicken carcasses is affecting his family: “Just death and rotting carcasses.”(Photo: John Partipilo)

The first sign of something awry was the road closure on the two-lane country road that goes right past Will Burton’s Weakley County farm, his fields, barns and the one-story house he shares with his fiancee and three kids.

White trucks — emblazoned with the seal of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and “fire and burn” stickers — began rolling past around the same time the family began smelling a terrible, new odor. It was distinct from the smell of chicken waste that has been ever-present since a 16-barn industrial chicken operation, a raw meat supplier for Tyson Foods, moved in two years agoover…