They liken the putrid smell from the farms to that of a decomposing body or rotten eggs. The disruption to their overall quality of life, deafening noise from tractor-trailers night and day. The residents, mostly people of color, talk about what life is like as a result. Meanwhile, the hogs are being outnumbered by poultry, an industry that’s been expanding in the region. The overwhelming majority of the state’s 2,100 concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are located in Duplin and Sampson counties where hogs are said to outnumber people 40 to one. ![]() As they sat masked and socially distanced in the pews, the residents rose one by one to recount the way their lives have been forever changed since Smithfield built thousands of hog houses in their communities. On a Sunday evening in July, about 30 residents from around Sampson County gathered at Byrd’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Rose Hill, about 20 miles from the county seat of Clinton, to hear about a soon-to-be-constructed methane pipeline.įor many, it is simply another in a long list of Smithfield Foods’ intrusions into their lives in Duplin and Sampson counties over which they seem to have little sway.
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