NC lawmakers move to protect pork giant hit by big verdict
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June 6, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Legislators in the country's No. 2 hog-growing state on Tuesday stepped up efforts to shield industrial hog operations from neighbors who have complained for decades about the smell, noise and flies generated by housing thousands of animals together.
The state Senate's Agriculture Committee unveiled and approved language that would protect the low-cost but much-criticized method of handling hog waste. The proposed changes to a state farm-protection law would block lawsuits alleging negligent or improper operations that create a nuisance.
The legislation also presumes that...
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