The Stink of Swine Country

After a decades-long battle, a group of North Carolina residents are suing the pork production arm of a meat conglomerate over the odorous excrement-filled cesspools in their neighborhoods. Is the world eating cheap bacon at the expense of North Carolina’s rural poor?

Author: Lily Kuo
Source: Quartz
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,100 words)