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Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

Reacting to Trump administration proposals calling for higher-paced processing, critics say protections for workers, animals and food safety are not the only concerns.

By Georgina Gustin

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.

By Lisa Sorg

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Per Year. No One Tracks Where It’s Going.

By Anika Jane Beamer, Nina B. Elkadi

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

ICN Sunday Morning

Trump Cancels Study on Health Impacts of Industrialized Hog Farms That Produce Biogas

By Lisa Sorg

Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water

By Anika Jane Beamer

Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains

By Lisa Sorg

N.C. Farm Bureau Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Environmental Protections From Hog Farm Permits

By Lisa Sorg

As the Livestock Industry Touts Manure-to-Energy Projects, Environmentalists Cry ‘Greenwashing’

By Georgina Gustin