Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. As a student at UNC-Chapel Hill, Jamie Berger wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on ...

Environmentalists are taking aim at the hog industry, calling for industry-wide reforms. They came to Raleigh Wednesday to argue their case. Environmentalists, family farm activists and animal welfare ...

Christensen Farms, one of the nation's largest pork producers, has suspended seven employees over hidden camera footage that appears to show sick sows and piglets being abused and neglected at a ...

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) in Duplin County, NC. Hog farms can be identified by the lagoons located next to the long hog houses. The hog waste is washed from the houses into the ...

The RSPCA has said it will investigate claims pigs are being kept in "cramped conditions" at Cherry Tree Farm in Stow Bedon, ...

Most hogs today are raised in barns that house thousands of animals, often owned by a company contracting with a local farmer. The factory-style operations are an economic driver in ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Covered swine barns dot the landscape near Platte Center, where tens of thousands of hogs are raised and fed. Many of these barns are owned by a local boy who ...

Although there have always been hog farmers in North Carolina, the industry was fairly small until the mid-1980s. At that time, a major new hog slaughter plant opened in the state, and dozens of new ...