Source: Ned Barnett, NEWS & OBSERVER, 8/3/18


Hog farmers joke that the odor that sometimes wafts from their hog operations is a welcome one. “It’s the smell of money,” they say. After Friday, that carefree humor is gone. The odor is still the smell of money. But it’s the smell of massive jury awards going to neighbors of industrialized hog farms. They’re being compensated for enduring the stench, the swarms of flies, the buzzards, the rumbling trucks stuffed with hogs alive and dead, and the indifference of a huge corporation.

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