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levels of nitrogen nitrate.
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources says the contamination entered the groundwater through
a state-permitted spray irrigation system that allows Mountaire to apply wastewater from its processing plant to nearby farmland. That wastewater, which contains both poultry and human waste, is supposed to be thoroughly treated.
Mountaire’s executive vice president of business strategy and administration did not return the newspa- per’s requests for comment.
Mountaire says it is the seventh-largest chicken producer in the U.S.
Independent committee looking to rename Squaw Peak
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A new group is beginning a push to change the name of Squaw Peak in Provo to something more honorable to Native American women.
The Repeak Committee is leading the effort to remove the word “squaw” from the name of the iconic jagged mountain, The Daily Herald reported Thursday.
The push comes after a U.S. government board voted to rename another geological feature, Moab’s Negro Bill Canyon, to Grandstaff Canyon.
Provo resident Chauma Jansen, who is working with the new independent committee, believes the term Squaw is both derogatory and demeaning.
“It is meant to belittle somebody or belittle their worth. Historically it has been used to (mean) prostitution as well as sexual violence against women,” said Jansen, whose heritage is Navajo, Sioux and Assiniboine. The mountain located near Brigham Young University was named around the 1850s. The origins are cloudy of the name are cloudy. The most common story is that it was named after a member of the Timpanogos Ute tribe who fell to her death as they were being pursued by white settlers, BYU history professor Jay
Buckley said. But, he said, the story may be more anecdotal than historic fact.
The committee is preparing a proposal to send to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which is re-
sponsible for standardizing geographic names.
A Squaw Peak in Arizona was renamed in 2003 to Piestewa Peak in honor of Lori Piestewa, the rst Na-
tive American woman to killed in US military combat.
The Provo group hopes to the rename the mountain after a Ute woman, and has reached out to the
tribe for name recommendations and approval.
It hopes to nalize the proposal by February. The group will present its message at a lecture at Utah
Valley University next week. ___
Information from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldextra.com
Undercover video shows dairy farm worker kicking cows
OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (AP) — An undercover video that purports to show workers kicking cows in the head and hitting them with metal rods has prompted authorities to open a criminal investigation at one of Florida’s largest dairy farms.
Okeechobee County Sheriff Noel Stephen said during a news conference Thursday that he assigned an investigator to the case involving Larson Dairy. And Florida-based Publix supermarkets announced it has suspended milk deliveries from Larson, adding in a statement the company is “shocked” by the treatment of cows.
Publix said it has contacted the Florida Department of Agriculture about the alleged abuse. In a state- ment the company said, “we are disturbed by the images and shocked by the cruelty toward animals.”
The video was shot by an investigator with Animal Recovery Mission, a Miami Beach-based animal cruelty group, who began working at the dairy in August.
“Dairy supervisors and milkers beat, stab and torment dairy cows with steel construction rebar,” the