Hog Farming

While animal rights groups cheered the decision, the pork industry said it will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork chops and bacon.

A study released earlier this year from researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill shows that people who live close to commercial hog operations are more likely to become sick with gastrointestinal illnesses.

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.

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a 2018 jury verdict that led to awarding monetary damages to neighbors of a North Carolina industrial hog…

Flood-prone counties in eastern North Carolina, already home to vast swine farms, have seen massive growth in the size and volume of industrial-scale…

Lack of reliable high-speed internet access is a persistent problem in rural North Carolina, but small broadband companies are springing up across the…

On Tuesday another hog nuisance lawsuit opened in federal court featuring neighbors of a swine farm in Sampson County who complained of smells and noise…

On Tuesday another hog nuisance lawsuit opened in federal court featuring neighbors of a swine farm in Sampson County who complained of smells and noise…

Do large-scale hog farms make their neighbors sick? A new study from Duke University researchers show residents who live close to industrial hog farms…