Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 7/11/18

 Testimony got underway Wednesday in the third in a series of lawsuits targeting the hog industry in North Carolina, with neighbors accusing pork giant Smithfield Foods of practices that put so much stench into the air they can't enjoy their yards nearby.
Open lagoons for hog waste and the standard practice of spraying a mixture of water, feces and urine into the air to fertilize feed crops have already generated a pair of multimillion-dollar verdicts in these cases. 

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