Hog Waste News Today

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>> as just a human being, the idea of gigantic pits full of hog waste is a gross seeming thing, even in the best of times. in this case, thinking about those things being inundated with floodwaters and then spread, its obviously viscerally uncomfortable because we can imagine what those things are like. whats the danger of toxicity and pollution? >> hog lagoons can have bacteria other things that wouldnt be great if you were to come into contact with them or drink them. can contaminate sources o...

Pork-producing state. roughly 9 million hogs on farms all around north carolina. back in 1999 during hurricane floyd, dozens of what are called hog lagoons, big lagoons, filled with toxic hog waste ended up swamped by floyd. they sent toxic waste downstream, polluted wildlife in a big way. as of yesterday, 77 hog lagoons, quote, have either released pig waste into the environment or are at eminent risk of doing so. thats more than double the count from the day before when the number was just 34....

Floating around that people have no choice but to make contact with if theyre trying to get back into their homes and when they get to their homes, they may find that that contamination is washed in. >> arecontamination has washed in. >> are steps being taken to sort of protect residents here, to at least advise people about potential contamination in the flood waters? im thinking not only near the industrial sites or the large scale alcultural sites youre talking about but also theres been land...

Country. they have over three million head of hog and a lot of those hogs are going to be wiped out because of the storm. you can only do so much to protect the hog crop and with this incredible flooding youre probably going to lose millions and millions of pigs and hogs because of the storm. and its even deeper because this could cause a huge environmental disaster in this area, neil, because north carolina uses a lot of that hog waste to turn into fertilizer for a later date. so they have thes...

And as you see behind me, this is one of the lagoons. and what the lagoons here are used for is hog waste is thrown into this lagoon and its later used by these farmers as fertilizer in the water to fertilize crops here, but theres concern, and it has happened in recent storms, where floodwaters either overtake these lagoons and spill it out into river water or that the edges of these lagoons break down, sending all of that waste out into river water, as well. so that is one of the concerns that...

For the hog waste and a concern that the waste if the lagoons flood could spread down river to neighborhoods and cause health issues. a lot of stuff that could be floating around that theyre concerned about. >> neil: yeah. lovely. thanks, my friend. in the middle of that, we have concerns about potential price gouging. why does this always happen at times that people with least afford to it happen. hurricane florence is aiming in at the carolinas. ken langone might have a solution after this. >>...

>> sometimes you can fine out there are some actually good reasons. you look at -- back when we had ear marks. they used to set aside hundreds of thousands of dollar ands say thats deals with hog waste in north carolina. or the wine industry in washington state. ear marks that only cost several hundred thousand dollars but very important for the economies of the states, and you take those out. then those industries clean. >> all right. buddy, you have beside a couple hundred tread truckers waiti...

Wright county egg which recalled 380 million. over the weekend we learned the same company quality egg supplies both those companies with chickens and feed. whats more, the same man owns both wright county egg and quality egg. and that man austin jack decoster has a history of trouble with his farms. trace gallagher with fox top story. records reveal that this man decoster has had a lot of violations. >> yeah and decoster farm violations dating back some 16 years. in 1994, the company paid 4 sep...