Reject zoning change for slaughterhouse
I eat meat. I know where meat comes from. Animals crammed together in pens. Processing meat for consumption is loud, dirty and hazardous. Disgusting.
Slaughter creates tons of industrial waste — feces, blood, cleaning chemicals, contaminated water. Diesel exhaust from the never-ending truck deliveries of live animals.
A Greenwood Township landowner (who according to county documents, does not even reside McHenry County) requested a conditional use permit for an animal processing facility with animal slaughter.
Slaughter of hundreds of thousands of chickens one-tenth of a mile from two residential subdivisions.
Industrial waste from slaughterhouse and meat processing a half mile from McHenry County Conservation District property and the Nippersink Creek.
A slaughterhouse located within the Nippersink Creek Watershed. The same Nippersink Creek that flows into and through Wonder Lake, Glacial Park Conservation Area, Pistakee Lake and Chain O’ Lakes.
Industrial zoning via conditional use permit does not belong in an Agricultural District.
McHenry County does not have the greatest track record when it comes to industry poisoning our greatest natural resource — water. Toxic algae bloom in the Kishwaukee Aquifer in Marengo. Brain cancer cluster in McCullom Lake from contaminated water from a manufacturer in Ringwood.
This Greenwood Road slaughterhouse proposal is a disaster waiting to happen. On May 22, the Zoning Board of Appeals needs to protect nature and residents by voting “no” to conditional use permit Z25-0011 (formerly 2024-052) Bazylyuk, A1-A1C, Greenwood Twp.
Protect our water. Protect our creek. Protect Wonder Lake.
Adam Liebmann
Wonder Lake