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  2. Hog farm ruling from appeals court may complicate other ... - AOL

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    The hog farms do include provisions that apply to each facility, Nowlin said, things like requiring farms to keep waste levels in lagoons low enough to prevent spills during a 1-in-25 year ...

  3. Armed judges, hog waste and UNC’s new school: 10 things that ...

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    News reports have also detailed several problems plaguing the youth mental health ... Provides money for putting hog waste to use. North Carolina has more than 2,000 permitted hog farms, nearly ...

  4. Litigation related to Smithfield Foods - Wikipedia

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    Before and during the trial, many residents of the area planted yard signs that read, "Stand for hog farmers." [1] [7] Farm trade groups and sympathetic politicians have openly complained that these suits endanger their industry. In 2018 North Carolina changed its right-to-farm law to further protect farmers from frivolous lawsuits. [8]

  5. With help from celebrities, a film spotlights NC’s hog farm ...

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    The industrial hog industry’s cruel treatment of its animals, the environmental damage from hog waste and the suffering of those who live in its shadow are well known in North Carolina ...

  6. Environmental impact of pig farming - Wikipedia

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    It is true that historically hog feces have been used as fertilizer and can be done safely and without runoff, but the magnitude was described by Dan Whittle, a former senior policy associate at the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, as a "mass imbalance", with far too great a magnitude of fecal matter being sprayed ...

  7. Intensive pig farming - Wikipedia

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    The environmental justice problems in North Carolina's agroindustrialization of swine production seem to stem from the history of the coastal region's economy, which has relied heavily on black and low-income populations to supply the necessary agricultural labor. The industry's shift from family-owned hog farms to factory hogging has ...

  8. DEQ investigating Bladen County hog waste spill from farm ...

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    Equipment failure caused nearly 30,000 gallons of hog waste to spill into a nearby creek. ... Murphy-Brown Farm 7692 near Ammon spilled the waste. ... Ukraine says it captured 2 North Korean ...

  9. Smithfield Foods - Wikipedia

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    In North Carolina, Smithfield's expansion mirrored hog farmers' decline; there were 667,000 hog farms there in 1980 and 67,000 in 2005. When the US government placed restrictions on the company, it moved into Eastern Europe. As a result, in Romania there were 477,030 hog farms in 2003 and 52,100 in 2007.