Please consider signing Elsie Herring’s Petition: Stop the hog industry from spraying pig waste on our homes

https://www.change.org/p/tell-the-office-of-civil-rights-to-stop-the-hog-industry-from-spraying-pig-waste-on-our-homes

HogWaste

Excerpt of Petition: “The hog operation next door makes my life miserable. The pork industry down here in North Carolina places profits over my civil rights. I have no choice but to live with spray manure blowing onto my property. There’s an increase in snakes, rats, flies, and mosquitoes. There’s a horrific odor seeping into my house even when the windows are shut as the Health Department has advised.

Please sign my petition telling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Civil Rights to help stop the civil rights violations here in North Carolina and protect families like mine from exposure to hog waste.

The powerful hog industry should not get away with this poor treatment of people of color and the environment just as those who brushed aside concerns of those in Flint, Michigan should be held accountable for their shameful discrimination and the health and environmental impact that caused…”

(Please click on link above to read and sign the petition.)