Tuesday, December 23, 2014

North Carolina pig farms are aerosoling raw waste particles and vapors into the air.


Smithfield Foods farms in N. Carolina (Still from Youtube video, SpeciesismTheMovie)

December 22, 2014


Thousands of huge pig farms (click here) in N. Carolina are spraying untreated animal waste into the air and contaminating neighboring communities, Mark Devries, who shot a shocking aerial video with a spy drone, told RT.
This environmental problem “has for some reason received very little attention in the American press,”says documentary filmmaker and activist Mark Devries, whose drone captured footage of cesspools at over 2,000 industrial pork factory farms in the US state.
“These pools are near people’s homes, people’s schools, people’s neighborhoods,” Devries said in an interview Monday to RT. “And in order to get rid of these giant open-air cesspools, the manure is actually sprayed into the air with giant spraying devices, which causes it to turn into a fine mist.”...