Source: NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 10/20/21


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. As they sat masked and socially distanced in the pews, the residents rose one by one to recount the way their lives have been forever changed since Smithfield built thousands of hog houses in their communities.  

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