Source: Rob Schofield, NC POLICY WATCH, 4/6/18

As Policy Watch reporter Lisa Sorg reported once again yesterday, the facts of industrial hog farming in our state are profoundly disturbing and ought to be enough — even for those of us who live nowhere near such an operation — to cause a serious second, third and fourth look at lax state environmental policies. The impetus for Sorg’s reporting, of course, is a federal trial in which landowners who have been inundated by the stench and actual airborne debris from giant “farms” are bringing nuisance actions seeking damages for the horrific impacts on their lives and property.

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