by Jen Kendrick | Jun 15, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
It was something to behold in the federal courtroom – a Texas lawyer going after Duplin County hog farmer Joey Carter. For three days, Michael Kaeske pounced, working and searching to trip Carter up on words and documents from decades past. Importantly, the lawyer...
by Jen Kendrick | Jun 5, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
At the nuisance trial in Raleigh, Steve Wing was testifying about his views on hog farms. Wing was both a researcher at UNC-Chapel Hill – and an officer in a nonprofit organization that filed complaints about the hog industry. He died of cancer in 2016 and so his...
by Jen Kendrick | Jun 4, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
This statement was originally posted on the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ website. Statement from Commissioner Steve Troxler on the contributions of the N.C. pork industry to the state North Carolina’s pork industry feeds us and...
by Jen Kendrick | May 31, 2018 | Beyond Bacon, Court cases
There is an astonishing story being told in a federal courtroom in Raleigh right now. It’s coming from a Texas lawyer named Michael Kaeske. He’s speaking to 12 jurors, trying to sell them on the notion that a hog farm in North Carolina is a legal nuisance – one that...
by Jen Kendrick | May 3, 2018 | NCPC News
We have always maintained, and now the parties agree, there were not violations of the civil rights law in the permitting of hog farms in North Carolina. It is without question that this is the proper conclusion to this unfounded allegation. We look forward to working...
