07/23/2025
⚠️ What’s Really Happening on These Farms? It Ain’t What You Think.
North Carolina is home to some of the worst environmental disasters caused by factory pig farms. We’re talkin’ thousands of animals packed into metal buildings, never seeing sunlight, pumped full of antibiotics just to survive the filth. Their waste? It gets flushed into massive open-air pits, then sprayed into the air over nearby communities. And yes — mostly low-income, rural communities. That’s not farming, that’s environmental theft.
But don’t think for a second that it’s just pigs.
The beef and poultry industries are running the same playbook — just changing the animal.
📌 Chickens packed in tight, barely enough room to turn around.
📌 Cattle fed cheap grain in overcrowded feedlots, knee-deep in waste.
📌 Whole rural landscapes destroyed to make room for corporate greed.
This system isn’t about feeding people. It’s about profit at all costs.
Animals suffer. Farmers get trapped in debt. And the land we depend on? Left poisoned and stripped bare.
Let’s fix our plates without breaking our planet. 💪
🩷 Support local. Ask questions. And never settle for food made in a factory.
Aerial view of massive manure lagoons at a North Carolina pig farm – Toxic purple waste pits sit dangerously close to rivers, surrounded by long barns. 
2. Flooded hog-lagoon breach after Hurricane Florence/ Matthew – Photo shows waste spilling across fields and into waterways during flood events. 
3. Open-air sprayfields – Though not shown above, you can find disturbing photos of giant irrigation guns shooting raw manure across crops when you search for “NC hog manure sprayfield violation drone”.
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