Fears Realized
- walterskuzeski
- Sep 19, 2018
- 2 min read
A large hog operation flooded:
Before Hurricane Florence hit the coasts of North Carolina, the flooding of pig farms and coal ash ponds was worrisome. Pictures of it though, makes you realize how shitty this is. For our environment, humans, and for pigs and chickens. You can judge me for being bummed out that pigs and chickens died, but all I can say is fuck you...
Four barns flooded:
Poultry barns with pollution in the water:
A hog lagoon being pumped into floodwater:
Aside from pollution and pigs dying, but chickens too.
A part of Sanderson Farms press release:
Out of 880 broiler houses in North Carolina, 60 have flooded. Another six houses experienced damage and will be unable to house broilers until repairs are made. In addition to the affected broiler houses, four breeder houses out of a total of 92 in North Carolina flooded. At this point, none of the Company’s 33 pullet houses have reported serious damage. As a result of these losses, the Company estimates that approximately 1.7 million head of broiler chickens out of an average live inventory of approximately 20 million head, ranging in age from six days to sixty-two days, were destroyed as a result of flooding. In addition, approximately thirty farms, housing approximately 211,000 chickens per farm, in the Lumberton, North Carolina, area are isolated by flood waters and the Company is unable to reach those farms with feed trucks. Losses of live inventory could escalate if the Company does not regain access to those farms.
It's a good thing that North Carolina had banned studying sea level rise a few years ago. I'm sure it wasn't Republicans that did that.
Having said that, thank god we have a clear minded president about all of this:
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