by Jen Kendrick | Oct 16, 2019 | Beyond Bacon
It was an invitation to a livestock show that turned the McNealys into a pig family. Watching her friend parade around a show ring with a pig, 9-year-old Ella McNealy was hooked, and she soon convinced her parents to let her start showing pigs. There was a definite...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 16, 2019 | Beyond Bacon
The News & Observer published a story on the front page of the Sunday paper, written by a freelance writer and directly funded by a policy advocacy organization, that is factually incorrect and dishonest. The story is inaccurate on three counts: It gets facts...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 15, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, Uncategorized
Here are reports from the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to the General Assembly about animal operations for the past decade. These document 24,551 inspections on permitted farms in the time period covered. Additionally, these document complaints that...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 15, 2019 | Beyond Bacon
There is an entity called the Open Philanthropy Project that is funded largely from the personal fortune of billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna. Moskovitz is a co-founder of Facebook. One focus area of the Open Philanthropy Project (OPP) is a “farm...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 9, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
UPDATE: Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at 4:30 p.m. Surveying by regulators and the North Carolina pork industry continues to indicate that impacts to or from pig farms in North Carolina from Hurricane Dorian has been limited. There are no reports of a breach, structural...
by Bra5c0 | Sep 6, 2019 | Beyond Bacon, NCPC News
UPDATE: 10:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019 North Carolina hog farms did not have significant impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall today in North Carolina. Farm anaerobic treatment lagoons, which are used to manage manure in protection of the...
