Source: Anne Blythe, NEWS & OBSERVER, 6/14/18


In a federal courtroom in the North Carolina capital, a former textile worker told a jury about the downsides he had experienced while living next to one of the hog farms operated by Smithfield Foods in the eastern part of the state. Elvis Williams, 60, explained to jurors that he moved to his mobile home nearly three decades ago knowing a much smaller hog farm was next door. But over the years, Williams said, the farm operated by the Virginia-based Smithfield Foods has grown to 4,700 hogs with...

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