Source:  Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE.COM, 2/9/10

Salisbury, Md.-based Perdue Farms announced it will be one of seven companies from around the world featured on the premiere of a new Discovery Channel program about environmental leaders.

Perdue appears in the opening episode of "The Green Room," which debuts Feb. 13. The show features Perdue's first-in-the-nation poultry litter processing plant, along with its agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to help farmers keep waterways clean.

The segment includes interviews with Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Perdue and Terri Wolf-King, an independent poultry producer who raises chickens for Perdue on her family farm in Hurlock, Md.

"Our associates work hard to be good environmental stewards, both through the company and with our farm family partners who actually grow the poultry. It's great to see their efforts spotlighted," said Perdue in a news release.

"The Green Room" will initially consist of 13 original episodes highlighting innovative ways the private sector is meeting environmental challenges, from saving energy at the Empire State Building to reusing nuclear fuel in France.

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