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Families who have lived in the area “for generations, ha[ve] to endure everything that comes with an industrial hog operation of that size: the flies, buzzards and endless sounds of pigs squealing,” North Carolina Health News reports. Also, because the hog waste is “flushed into open lagoons and sprayed onto feed crops as fertilizer,” residents are inundated with “minute particles of feces that marred their homes, cars, mailboxes and laundry.”

“And it was only when a factory farm was slated to be built near a wealthy white golf resort, that the legislators of North Carolina decided to pass a moratorium on the construction of new CAFOs. There was a clear pattern where hundreds and thousands of these farms were popping up in largely Black communities, and it was only when they threatened a golf resort that the legislature was willing to react,” said Berger.
 








 


 






 




 






 
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