Hog Farms Ordered to Pay 11 Million Because They Smell
Watch out Rams, apparently you can get fined now for stinking.
A state court jury in Jackson County, Mo., returned an $11 million verdict Thursday against industrial hog producers Premium Standard Farms Inc., a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, and the privately held ContiGroup Cos. (previously Continental Grain) in favor of residents living near the defendants’ 4,300-acre factory hog farm in northern Missouri.
The verdict, covering 11 years of damages, is the largest monetary award against a hog farm in an odor nuisance case.
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