Source: Carey L. Biron, REUTERS, 6/19/19

 From not being able to hang laundry outside or have friends over for a barbeque to health problems, residents of the U.S. state of North Carolina are having their lives disrupted by large industrial pig farms, said a lawsuit filed on Wednesday. Communities in eastern North Carolina, the United States’ second-largest pork producer and one of the densest hog farming areas in the world, have for years complained about the smell and pollution caused by the animals’ faecal waste.

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