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 | Apr 9, 2018 | Beyond Bacon
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...
by Jen Kendrick | Apr 2, 2018 | Beyond Bacon
North Carolina is one of the nation’s leading hog producers with more than 2,000 permitted farms. Most of them are in eastern North Carolina. Sampson and Duplin County, alone, account for about 40 percent of all the pigs and hogs raised in our state. So, why are hog...
