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Somewhere east of the North Carolina town of Tar Heel lay rows upon rows of hog farms, as far as the eye can see. Each hog house, as long as a football field, holds up to 10,000 hogs and backs onto a single large lagoon. The lagoons are a sickly shade of pink and contain [...]
Overcrowding and overuse of vaccines could be the reason for the mutation of a powerful new super flu and Smithfield’s super efficient factory farms could be the breeding ground. This isn’t the first time swine flu has broken out at a Smithfield’s farm. As recently as 2007, an outbreak at one of the company’s Romanian [...]