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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]
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a 2018 jury verdict that led to awarding monetary damages to neighbors of a North Carolina industrial hog operation for smells and noise they said made ...
In 2010, a Jackson County, Missouri, jury awarded seven neighboring farmers $11 million in damages for odors emanating from a 4,300 acre finishing farm near Berlin in Gentry County, Missouri where an estimated 200,000 hogs are processed annually. In 2006, six plaintiffs were awarded $4.6 million from the lawsuit (the largest in a hog farm odor ...
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 ...
Applications close Jan. 13 for the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program — a $2.2 billion program for farmers who faced USDA ... like a farmer who was denied a hog pen 50 years ago, can ...
Smithfield Foods hog CAFO, Unionville, Missouri, 2013. In animal husbandry, a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO), as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is an intensive animal feeding operation (AFO) in which over 1,000 animal units are confined for over 45 days a year.
Death on a Factory Farm follows the undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm by the animal rights group The Humane Farming Association (HFA), and the resulting court case against it. The organization received a tip from an employee at the farm that animals were being abused, including a claim that hogs were being hung by chains and strangled ...
The pork industry has filed lawsuits but so far courts have supported the California law. ... which raises about one-third of the nation's hogs, farmer Dwight Mogler estimates the changes would ...