Source: FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 7/29/20



Smithfield Foods, a $15 billion company, has a plan to profit from hog waste. That plan would give it cover to keep its antiquated, polluting system of storing waste from 9 million North Carolina hogs, a system that puts our soil, our air and our water at risk. Currently, Smithfield’s contractors store the nearly 10 billion gallons of hog waste the company’s hogs produce each year in giant, unlined cesspools, then spray it on nearby cropland. Pathogens from that waste...

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