Suits against Smithfield could leave hog industry in doubt
Story Date: 6/18/2018

 

Source: Greg Barnes, FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER, 6/16/18

The people who live in a row of small homes on a short dirt road leading to Billy Kinlaw’s hog farm don’t have a problem with him, and they don’t want to see him go out of business. Still, those neighbors appeared in federal court in April as plaintiffs in a lawsuit that says Kinlaw’s farm stinks, creates clouds of flies and lowers property values. The neighbors complain about the tractor-trailers that rumble past their homes and the buzzards that swoop in to feed on dead hogs.

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