Source: CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/11/17


Imagine your neighbor saving up all their cat litter in a pile outside, occasionally spreading it around the yard. But instead of one or two cats, it is tens of thousands of chickens. This is reality north of Charlotte, upstream of our lakes, and a growing problem for the environment statewide. Mention of industrial meat production or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) often prompts thoughts of pigs and waste lagoons in eastern North Carolina...

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