Opinion: Pork industry and lawmakers should heed jury’s message
Story Date: 8/10/2018

 

Source: WILSON TIMES, 8/8/18

So far, Smithfield Foods is 0-for-3 in lawsuits filed against it by neighbors of its industrial-scale hog farms. Given juries’ reactions to the evidence they’re heard in each of the three suits, it’s not difficult to formulate an educated guess about the outcomes of the next 23 trials still ahead. Once jurors hear about the living conditions for the factory farms’ neighbors, they don’t have much sympathy for the world’s largest pork producer.

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