🌿 Environment 10h ago · By Lisa Sorg

How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution

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A pact between the state and Smithfield Foods “failed miserably.” Those who worked on the agreement explain why.By Lisa SorgFeeding the Beast: Second in a series about lax regulation, corporate influence and the heavily polluting, yet nearly untouchable American meat industry.Thousands of dead and bloated pigs floated down country roads, buoyed by floodwaters. Tens of millions of gallons of feces and urine spilled over the brims of lagoons and contaminated everything in their path, including riv

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