Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in Duplin County, NC. Hog farms can be identified by the lagoons located next to the long hog houses. The hog waste is washed from the houses into the ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jamie Berger wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on ...

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality is asking the public to comment on its draft permits that oversee hog, cattle and a limited number of poultry operations across the state as part of a five ...

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 ...