The meat industry’s environmental racism problem, explained.| Vox
As large-scale hog and poultry industries continue to grow in eastern NC, local residents push back against decades of air and water pollution.| North Carolina Health News
Mission Statement of the EPA -- to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment -- air, water and land -- upon which life depends. Also describes how EPA accomplishes mission.| US EPA
While the cause is not definitive, the health risks serve as a call for research and action North Carolinians who live near large hog farms -- known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs -- have higher death rates from a variety of causes than comparable state residents who live further away from such facilities.| Duke Department of Surgery
Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are industrial-scale livestock facilities that confine thousands of hogs or poultry in small spaces,| NCEJN - North Carolina Environmental Justice Network