Pigs AND THE FACTORY FARM.

From: Animals | Date: March 1, 2000| Author: LAVENDEL, BRIAN | Copyright information

When Hurricane Floyd hit the United States last September, the storm deluged North Carolina with 20 inches of rain, flooding 44,000 homes and causing the death of at least 49 residents.

But as if this weren't damage enough, the devastation extended to the region's factory hog-farming operations. Estimates of the number of hogs killed in the storm range from 30,000 to 500,000, and 50 swine waste lagoons were washed out. The flooded remains of North Carolina's factory-farm...

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