The news has been filled lately with more stories about the growing divide between North Carolina’s urban and rural communities. While larger cities are experiencing a wave of growth, many rural communities are struggling with declining populations and the continued …
Category: Beyond Bacon
Beyond Bacon is our blog where we will keep you informed on what’s happening in the NC pork industry.
Don’t worry, your bacon doesn’t come from China
Whether you’re eating bacon in the morning or pork chops at dinner, you can rest assured that your pork products are home grown. North Carolina is one of the nation’s top pork producers and most of that meat stays right …
Invitation to a pig show turns into a business opportunity for Transylvania County girl
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 …
Latest attack by N&O is false, harmful
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 …
Reports from NC DEQ to General Assembly on animal operations
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 inspectors acted …
Background on the Open Philanthropy Project
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 …
Surveys, reports continue to show limited impacts from Hurricane Dorian
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 …
N.C. Pork Council: Limited farm impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian
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 …
N.C. Pork Council: No significant farm impacts from severe Hurricane Dorian
UPDATE: 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2019
There are no reports of significant impacts to North Carolina’s pork industry, which includes more than 2,000 farms, as a result of severe Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall in North Carolina this morning.…
Hurricanes spawn storms of misinformation
An Associated Press article published in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian begins like this: “The names of hurricanes may change, but one thing seems to stay the same: Misinformation spreads quickly…”
We cannot agree more. The pork industry …