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 …
Tag: Truth of the Matter
The truth about … hog farms and asthma
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 …
The truth about… why hog farms are in Eastern North Carolina
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 …