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Article

1 Nov 2009

Author:
Calvin Burgess, Dominion Farms

[PDF] Dominon Farms response

If the journalist would have come to farm to take pictures and interview the workers on site, the story as written would not have been possible...The journalist wrote of how we displaced hundreds of families from the land. A good journalist would have done a little research and discovered that the only dry land was occupied by a government agency while the remainder was a meter deep in water. By the time we took possession of the property...[n]ot a single home was on the leased land...The water in the Yala River is far from perfect but it is all that is there. It is what all of our employees, including myself, use daily. Dominion Farms has constructed settlement basins, filtration structures and improved the water as much as possible, but more is still to be done. The report the journalist referred to regarding dieldren has the reader thinking that Dominion Farms put it there. Dominion Farms does not use this nor would we ever put it in our own drinking water.