CAFOs

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for hog and poultry operations, which bring billions of dollars to the state. Today, reporter David Boraks tours the front lines where neighbors worry about air and water quality. And he hears from industry officials who argue that North Carolina has some of the strictest rules in the country.

According to the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, there are now over 100 million hogs and chickens living in factory farms in North Carolina.…

On Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed House Bill 467. That’s a bill we reported on last week, that would impact those who live near concentrated animal…

North Carolina is the third largest producer of pork in the country, and that means a lot of hog farms. Those hog farms have neighbors. Sometimes those…

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North Carolina is the second-largest pork producer in the United States. The importance of the industry to the state’s economy – and by extension to the…