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Motorists passing through parts of southeastern North Carolina can smell the presence of industrial hog farms. But few get to see – or would want to see – how the hogs are raised for slaughter.
Industrial pig farming has become a common practice for producing pork in the country of France. However, the local community of consumers has become skeptical of intensive industrial pig production. Safety factors, quality of meat and impacts on the environment are all reasons for the decrease of pig farming production throughout France.
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 ...
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]
Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing or straw-lined sheds, whilst pregnant sows are housed in gestation crates or pens and give birth in farrowing crates.
As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jamie Berger wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on how North Carolina’s industrial hog farms harm animals, people and the environment.
This form of waste disposal is an attempt for factory farms to be cost efficient. The environmental degradation resulting from pig farming presents an environmental injustice problem, since the communities do not receive any benefit from the operations, and instead, suffer negative externalities, such as pollution and health problems. [272]
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