by Jen Kendrick | Sep 11, 2018 | Beyond Bacon
While farmers across the state are working long hours to brace for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, there has been another group working equally hard in its ongoing efforts to damage the state’s pork industry. As soon as the hurricane hits, the Waterkeeper Alliance,...
by Jen Kendrick | Aug 3, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases, NCPC News
Statement of North Carolina Pork Council The verdict is outrageous. The farms on trial were constructed in the mid-1990s. Since then, each of the six plaintiffs in this case either moved to the farms or built new homes in that farming community. None had made any...
by Jen Kendrick | Jul 2, 2018 | NCPC News
The election of pork producer delegate candidates for the 2019 National Pork Producers (Pork Act) Delegate Body will take place at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 1, 2018, in conjunction with a Board of Directors meeting of the NC Pork Council at the NC State University...
by Jen Kendrick | Jun 22, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
One way the Texas lawyer bringing the nuisance lawsuit has tried to turn facts upside down is by arguing, over and over, that the pork industry in North Carolina is stuck in its ways. Farmers use the same system they always have, he argues, and only the jury can make...
by Jen Kendrick | Jun 19, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
There was a telling exchange in the federal hog farm trial in Raleigh. It had to do with money – which is what this trial is all about. First, a bit of background. On one side of the courtroom are Joey Carter, a Duplin County hog farmer, and Murphy Brown LLC, which is...
