This 2022 Vox article details Big Pork’s environmental racism against Black North Carolinians. The 8.8 million hogs grown in the state produce over 10 billion gallons of waste each year, resulting in massive amounts of air and water pollution. Companies like Smithfield store the waste in enormous open pits, then dispose of it by spraying the waste on barren fields that abut low-income neighborhoods. And people are getting sick.