NPR reported that the waste from these "lagoons" is now contaminating everything because its gotten into the river and groundwater. This stuff is so toxic, it kills all the fish in rivers and streams every time they overflow. Imagine returning to a home where your very insulation and drywall was soaked in pig urine and feces. It defies belief that this is happening because of something that's obviously legal. But regulation on huge "job creators" like these pig farms requiring them to install sewage processing plants is probably "bad for business." I can just imagine the super rich pig farmer who owns it all looking at his empty "lagoon" and smiling, "Well ain't that just special! It dun git cleaned up all by itself, and now I dun 'ave to worry 'bout it." Meanwhile being completely oblivious to the thousands of people who may be literally forced to wade through the aftermath of their bad judgement and cost-effective decision-making.
So today I am thankful. I am thankful that (when it rains) it is actually drops from the sky falling on my house and not pig shit. I am thankful that I can walk outside, and my clothes are not stained with pig feces from a pig farm spraying its excrement as fertilizer over ground (and becoming air-borne in the process). I am thankful that I am not dealing with miles of pig feces.
This is hands-down the most disgusting business practice I have ever seen.
Who could have ever thought those might overflow one day? Anyone with half a brain. It's sad we're returning to the 19th Century world Upton Sinclair described in The Jungle.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to my crappy state.
ReplyDeleteI am grossed out.
ReplyDeleteLove what Pat and Alex wrote.
ReplyDeleteI'd heard of these "lagoons" but they look more like terrifyingly huge massive lakes of dangerously chemically treated rot. And no doubt these corporate farmers have paid off the NC legislature enough that even if people die as a result of this pollution, there'll be no punishment for them.