Posted on 09/06/2025 4:22:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents.
The Trump administration has cancelled a $417,000 federal grant that would have funded research on the social and economic impacts of biogas production from industrialized swine operations in North Carolina.
Over several years, scientists from RTI International in Durham and the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had planned to continuously monitor the air, and periodically sample rivers, streams, and private drinking water in Duplin and Sampson counties. The study would also have collected health data in the communities.
Duplin and Sampson rank first and second in the nation, respectively, in the number of swine farms, according to a University of Michigan study. They account for 4.2 million hogs on roughly 900 farms, state environmental data shows, a small percentage of which have received state permits to produce biogas.
Census data show tracts near these concentrated animal feeding operations—CAFOs—are predominantly Black, Indigenous or Latino.
The research is important because swine gas operations are proliferating in North Carolina. Yet there is scant data on the environmental and health effects near these facilities, according to the RTI and UNC scientists.
The community research conducted in Duplin and Sampson counties on the biogas production project was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS).
The biogas study was one of at least 1,700 projects that lost funding earlier this year after the Trump administration terminated $783 million in grants at NIEHS’ parent agency, the National Institutes of Health. Although it is unclear if the biogas study was singled out for its environmental justice focus , similar projects were targeted.
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I voted for this!
Smithfield has an R&D department in Wilmington, NC.
The HORROR!
Impeach Trump Now! /s
> N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents. <
Dummies forgot to mention children and puppies.
Too late now.
Pig poop, I would think could be burned to carbon ash and sold as a carbon source for gardens.
I live in hog country in NC. Wendell Murphy, Smithfield and their ilk have millions upon millions of dollars to do their own studies. P.S. if you’ve never been stuck behind a hog truck on a two lane road in Eastern NC you really are missing something special. 😎🕺
Who runs Bartertown?
That’s just a different form of Final Destination.
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Pure unadulterated crap.
We all know that the conclusions are already written. And we’ll not even waste time by examining the ‘credentials’ of the clowns who will conduct the ‘research’.
Kind of is. 😂
“N.C. research would have provided crucial data on understudied effects of the burgeoning industry on predominantly Black, Indigenous and Latino residents.”
Did Lisa just call “Black, Indigenous and Latino” people hogs? Perhaps I should read the rest of the article? No, nevermind.
Hey, pig farts aren’t as noxious as the gas that Democrats spew every time they talk.
Yep. I’d rather trust Smithfield and their Chinese overlords.
Yes, pigs fart, but I question having 20,000 pigs crapping without a sewage treatment system.
Environmentalists should be in favor of biogas collection. And anaerobic digesters in cattle operations.
Yeah, I know. Environmentalists basically oppose livestock production, so anything they can do to impede any part of the business, they will do.
But if we produce the hogs, the biogas is going to be produced and disposed of one way or another.
“Crucial data”
Pork-barrel spending.
I’d love the opportunity to run my car on swine gas. Somebody please get busy marketing this stuff.
And how would that be any different than the effects it has on white people in the area? Are white people naturally *immune* to any negative effects from a biogas?
What racists.
More importantly, stats show that men who eat pork are less likely to marry 9-year-olds.
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