A major pork producer in North Carolina will address the industry’s vulnerability to climate change. The move has won praise from one environmental advocacy group but scorn from another.
The Environmental Defense Fund applauded Smithfield Foods for the company’s 10-year plan to capture 85,000 tons of methane per year and generate renewable energy from biogas.
Hog waste lagoons on large-scale farms that supply Smithfield–many in eastern North Carolina counties like Pender, Duplin, and Sampson–produce methane, a greenhouse gas.
Smithfield plans to install manure lagoon covers and a technology known as digesters on 90 percent of its facilities in North Carolina, Missouri, and Utah.
“Hurriane Florence demonstrated the vulnerability of hog farms to extreme weather and underscored…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I don’t know what to say. I visited a small local farm over the weekend where they had hogs, these were well cared for animals, although I personally do not eat. They were curious, intelligent, sentient beings, and of course the little ones are the definition of adorable. I simply cannot harm another being whose aware eyes I have looked into. I can’t even bear to see them behind bars in photos like this. 😦
Also:
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/oct/26/fish-and-wildlife-approves-killing-of-remaining-tw/
Same here. And thanks for the link.