Although there have always been hog farmers in North Carolina, the industry was fairly small until the mid-1980s. At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new ...

An open-pit lagoon is filled with waste from a hog farm in Duplin County, North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of The Smell of Money René Miller rests in a recliner in a darkened room, gasping through a ...

North Carolina is a national leader with more than 8 million hogs and close to a billion chickens and turkeys in production. Most are raised on an industrial scale, in what are known as "concentrated ...

Feral hogs are a menace to farmers across the US, causing at least $2.5 billion in damage annually. There’s only one way to stop the damage: eradication — a difficult but doable option that's hampered ...

As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jamie Berger wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on how North Carolina’s industrial hog farms harm animals, people and the environment. Ten years later, she’s still ...

A recent North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling could require environmental regulators to submit proposed changes to general permits to the state’s rule review process, attorneys on both sides of the ...