Record #:

43378

Author(s):

Ken Fine; Erica Hellerstein

Abstract:

State Representative Jimmy Dixon gave a speech that was similar to Abraham Lincoln speech during the 1859 Wisconsin Agricultural Fair. This speech was for a bill being passed that protects pig farmer and the effects the farms have on residents and the environment. Dixon was seen as accepting money from the “Big Pork industry.”

Source:

Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 12, April 2017, p9

Subject(s):

Farming; Environmental ethics; Politics--North Carolina