{"id":59499,"date":"2017-09-22T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=59499"},"modified":"2017-09-22T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:19:31","slug":"how-kansas-town-held-tyson-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/how-kansas-town-held-tyson-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Kansas Town Held off a Tyson Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonganoxie residents are the latest in a wave of rural communities standing up to Big Ag.<\/em><\/p>\n

It has been a rough few weeks for Tyson Foods, the nation\u2019s largest poultry producer.<\/p>\n

On September 5, the company announced that it was planning to build a $320 million poultry complex outside of Tonganoxie, Kansas\u2014a relatively well-appointed bedroom community in Kansas City with a population of 5,300. The plant was designed to be a first-of-its-kind, fully integrated operation that would have included everything from a hatchery to slaughter and processing. It would require 1,600 new employees and process 1.2 million birds a week.<\/p>\n

The Tyson plant was also a long-kept secret with the code name\u2014Project Sunset. Local lawmakers were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements<\/a> when considering welcoming it to town, and the company is said to have worked through intermediaries when negotiating with the landowner over the 300-acre lot it would occupy.<\/p>\n

But once the deal was done and the plan was made public<\/a>, word travelled fast, and residents of the town started a group called and Citizens Against Project Sunset (CAPS)<\/a> and threw up a \u201cNo Tyson in Tongie\u201d Facebook group that swelled to over 5,000 members. By last Friday, 2,500 people had gathered in a city park to oppose the development.<\/p>\n

Then, on Monday, the Leavenworth County Commissioners had rescinded its offer to pledge $500 million in revenue bonds for the facility. The next day, Tyson sent a letter to the county announcing that it had put the plans for the plant on hold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In its letter, the company wrote: \u201cWe still have interest in Leavenworth County, but will prioritize the other locations in Kansas and other states that have expressed support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On September 5, Tyson announced that it was planning to build a $320 million poultry complex outside of Tonganoxie, Kansas. The Tyson plant was also a long-kept secret with the code name\u2014Project Sunset. Local lawmakers were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements when considering welcoming it to town. But once the deal was done and the plan was made public, word travelled fast, and residents of the town started a group called and Citizens Against Project Sunset (CAPS) and threw up a \u201cNo Tyson in Tongie\u201d Facebook group that swelled to over 5,000 members. By last Friday, 2,500 people had gathered in a city park to oppose the development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,3],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow a Kansas Town Held off a Tyson Plant - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/how-kansas-town-held-tyson-plant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How a Kansas Town Held off a Tyson Plant - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On September 5, Tyson announced that it was planning to build a $320 million poultry complex outside of Tonganoxie, Kansas. 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