I have asthma… I have sarcoidosis from bacteria. He’s three, and we don’t know yet what she has. Her brother (she points to a baby she’s holding), he has asthma. In What the Health, Andersen speaks to Duplin County resident Rene Miller. In his latest documentary, What the Health, Andersen interviews several locals in Duplin County, North Carolina, where many of these waste lagoons reside, and hogs outnumber residents 40 to one. “My dad lives there, and I just can’t imagine anyone knowingly partaking in this horrific industry in anyway.” “Hog farming is an unnecessary evil that is destroying formerly beautiful North Carolina from the inside out, just as it does to the people who eat the pigs flesh and live by the farms,” Kip Andersen, director of the documentary Cowspiracy, told the Observer, referring to waste from the farms and the carcinogenic properties associated with foods like bacon. Her report also discovered carcinogenic effects induced by chemicals from hog farming waste. The board writes, “People living near these lagoons are at increased risk of asthma, diarrhea, eye irritation, depression and other health problems.” A 2016 report conducted by Julia Kravchenko from the Duke University School of Medicine found links between exposure to waste from hog farms and acute blood pressure increase, impaired neurobehavioral and pulmonary function. The bacteria from these lagoons have been known to pollute groundwater and surface water, permeating nearby communities with noxious fumes. In October 2016, the New York Times‘ editorial board published an op-ed that described the roughly 4,000 “waste lagoons” of pink sludge scattered across eastern North Carolina. Worse, septic infrastructure doesn’t exist at pig factories to properly handle the massive amounts of pig waste produced daily. Together, they produce waste equivalent to 100 million humans.
There are an estimated 10 million pigs in North Carolina’s pig farming industry. In some areas of North Carolina, hogs outnumber residents 40 to one.
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