Source: Sienna Zuco, NC POLICY WATCH, 5/18/20


NC’s fast-growing and lightly-regulated poultry industry is a big and  problematic source of pollution As Katy Langley Hunt flies in a plane above the green and brown patches of farmland in eastern North Carolina, she often points out the new poultry farms that seem to pop up overnight. As the Lower Neuse Riverkeeper, Hunt advocates for the protection and conservation of the longest riverway that flows entirely within North Carolina, traveling through the southeastern part of the state and emptying into the Pamlico Sound in New Bern.

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