Lois G. Britt Service Award: Don Butler

Don Butler, a longtime Smithfield Foods executive who retired at the end of last year, played an integral role in the North Carolina pork industry for the past 26 years. He is a past president of the National Pork Producers Council and the NC Pork Council and past...

The truth about … hog farms and asthma

A favorite line of those who attack hog farms is that our farms trigger – are you ready for this? – asthma. It’s a claim that shows up quite a bit, most recently in a recent Rolling Stone article: Even people who live much farther away from hog farms can suffer from...