Coping With the Effects of Hog Farms (Part 2)

The agriculture industry’s shift to bigger and more efficient production methods have created factory-like living facilities for animals, as well as huge repositories of waste. Neighbors complain the emissions from these pits and lagoons are making them sick. In the second of a two-part series, the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Dan Gorenstein reports. with little regulation from federal or state government, the local communities are experimenting with different technologies to control these ever-expanding bodies of waste: