Source: WUNC, 10/20/21

As large-scale hog and poultry industries continue to grow in eastern North Carolina, local residents push back against decades of air and water pollution. On a Sunday evening in July, about 30 residents from around Sampson County gathered at Byrd’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Rose Hill, about 20 miles from the county seat of Clinton, to hear about a soon-to-be-constructed methane pipeline. For many, it is simply another in a long list of Smithfield Foods’ intrusions into their lives in Duplin and Sampson counties over which they seem to have little sway.

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