This Map Shows How Widespread North Carolina’s Animal Waste Problem Really Is

(Before It's News)

First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

There are more than 6,500 concentrated animal feeding operations in North Carolina, which means a lot of animal feces finds its way into the air and water.

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