Source: Lynn Bonner, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/30/20


It’s the swarming flies that remind Robeson County residents that they live in the midst of an abundance of poultry houses, said David Shane Lowry, who advocates against chicken farms in the county. “In Robeson County, they’re spread everywhere,” he said of the poultry operations. Environmental groups that mapped poultry operations in the state found the quickest growth in poultry operations from 2012 to 2019 was in counties with substantial Black, Latino and Native American populations.

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