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43350
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Prestage is owner of Prestage Farms in Clinton. This year, Prestage Farms and Prestage Foods will process 505 million turkeys and more than 1 billion pounds of pork. Prestage employs 2,800 workers and 475 contract farmers nationwide. Bill Prestage notes success of the business in its efficiency with regard to nutrition and environment the animals are in.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 40 Issue 2, February 2020,
p56-57
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40617
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Profiles of products like timber and pork, along with statistics showing its international trade potential, help explain North Carolina’s number eleven ranking among exporting states in the US.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 39 Issue 3, March 2019 ,
p20, 22
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28749
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Scientists are genetically modify pigs to contain enough human genes to make their organs available for human transplant. Smithfield Foods Inc. employs many workers on hog farms in the state and is looking to develop hog byproducts for transplantation, medical, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical uses. The current work being done by Smithfield Bioscience and how the new scientific advances might change the industry are discussed.
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29001
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American Rivers, a national conservation organization, listed North Carolina’s Neuse River as the seventh most endangered river in the United States. They blamed hog and poultry industries for contaminating the waters. Advocates are urging legislators to restore a voluntary buyout program so that water resources can recover.
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29072
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This is the first of a three-part investigation into North Carolina’s hog-farming industry. The article examines claims by lower-income African American residents of eastern North Carolina that neighboring hog farms have polluted their properties and efforts by lawmakers to shield pork producers from litigation.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 23, June 28 2017,
p10-17, por
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29078
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This is the second installment of a three-part investigation into North Carolina’s hog-farming industry. This article examines the environmental impacts hog farming has had over the last two decades, particularly on waterways such as the Neuse River.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 24, July 2017,
p10-15, il, por
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29085
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This is the third of a three-part investigation into North Carolina’s hog-farming industry. The article discusses ways to make the multi-billion-dollar hog industry more sustainable, both for the environment and the state’s rural population, and the political and financial reasons those steps have not been taken.
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29093
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United States Representative David Price, a Democrat who represents Wake and Orange counties, is trying to improve environmental standards for North Carolina’s hog industry. In late May, Price introduced a bill called the Swine Act, which would encourage the development, certification, and adoption of environmentally sustainable waste-management technologies.
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27258
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North Carolina is home to more hogs than people, and pork is one of the state's top agricultural exports. Pastured pork is a form of resistance against an industrial behemoth, one rife with poor practices and environmental disasters. To combat this, a small but growing number of people in the Triangle area are raising hogs with consideration for the animals' welfare as well as their flavor.
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24137
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Michael Jones used to manage factory hog farms but turned to smaller farming methods that humanely raise hogs that taste better and are hormone free.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 31 Issue 4, April 2011,
p60-69, il
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28231
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The troubles with unions and workers’ rights at Smithfield’s hog processing plant in Bladen County are detailed. The company has fought the elections of union workers at the plant for years. The fast pace of the processing line has been another problem for workers as there are frequent injuries. Workers from the plant discuss the company’s poor and unsafe working environment.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 14, April 2007,
p18-20
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28232
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A proposed merger would cause Smithfield Packing to have a monopoly on the hog market in North Carolina. If the merger goes through, farmers would have less leverage to negotiate prices for their product. Politicians in the state have been silent on the issue as Smithfield has contributed money to many party committees and political candidates. Farmers in the state speak about concerns and the effects the merger would have on them.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 14, April 2007,
p22
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28236
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Smithfield Packing is asking the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources to remove essential environmental protections from the Tar Heel plant’s wastewater discharge permit. Smithfield also wants limits lifted on groundwater withdrawal, to requirements rescinded for environmental management systems, and removal of a ban on buying hogs from farms that use waste lagoons. The company is being regulated for many environmental violations and for their excessive use of groundwater, both of which harm local residents and the environment.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 14, April 2007,
p23-24
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28237
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Hog lagoons or cesspools are the disposal method of waste in the hog industry. However, after 2005, there were no supposed to be any more lagoons in use in the state. The lagoons contaminate groundwater and nearby watersheds and Governor Easely made a deal with industry to do away with the lagoons for a better environmentally and economically feasible method. To date, there has not been an agreed-upon economically feasible method, but some are hoping that research will produce one soon.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 14, April 2007,
p23
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28239
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The state’s politicians have let Smithfield Packing abuse workers in Tar Heel, and it is time both groups clean up their mess. Smithfield needs to improve working conditions and allow its workers to unionize. The company also needs to improve its plant’s safety, support training and education programs for immigrant Hispanic workers, and stop supporting hog farms which pollute the area water supply. State politicians need to pressure the meatpacker to make these changes to protect workers and the state’s environment.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 15, April 2007,
p12
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