After the Hurricane: Swine Waste Swirls in North Carolina

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

When you house nearly 10 million pigs in a coastal state like North Carolina, placing them primarily in low-lying counties near the coast, you’ve set the stage for inevitable environmental disaster. Yet, many are talking about the devastation caused to North Carolina’s concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) by Hurricane Florence as a catastrophe, as though it came as a surprise.

History has already shown that hog waste, which amounts to 10 billion gallons annually in North Carolina alone, is not adequately contained in tidy, impenetrable “lagoons,” the way Big Agriculture would have you believe.

Even under the best circumstances, the …read more

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