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$50 Million Damages For A Smelly Hog Farm

May 9, 2018

Pig + Mud = Happy

Ten neighbors of a hog raising facility under contract with Smithfield Foods will receive $75,000 in compensation and $50 million in punitive damages from the company, following a verdict in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina. “These cases are about North Carolina family property rights and a clean environment,” said Mona Lisa Wallace, a North Carolina attorney who teamed with two Texas-based firms on the matter. The plaintiffs’ target in this case was neither the hog-raising facility nor its owner, but rather Virginia-based Smithfield, now a subsidiary of a Chinese Company. Smithfield is said to strictly control the operations of the farms with which it contracts. The practice at issue involves utilizing semi-processed waste of thousands of hogs as fertilizer and spraying it on to fields.

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