Yale Environment 360 (2022)
February 14, 2022 - Chicken Frenzy: A State Awash in Hog Farms Faces a Poultry Boom
Article by Melba Newsome on the rise of industrial poultry facilities in eastern North Carolina. Includes interview with Ryan.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s CAFOs or power plants or something else, the script I’ve seen play out time and again is always, ‘Look over here at jobs. Don’t look over here at the pollution or over here at the health impacts.’ It’s as if you can throw out a number of jobs that will make it okay to expose people to a certain level of harm.”