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Aerial view of hog factory, showing
barracks-like rows of hog houses.
News & Observer photo by Robert Willett.
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Don't be misled by the term "hog farm." The modern-day hog factory has little in common with the traditional family farm of yesteryear.
The modern hog farm is a large scale, highly-mechanized operation, much like a typical industrial factory.
In hog factories, hogs live their entire lives packed together in big warehouses the size of football fields, called "hog houses." A single hog house can contain 800
to 1,000 hogs. One "farm" in the state actually has capacity for 68,000 hogs. Those 68,000 hogs could produce nearly as much waste as all the people living in Raleigh.
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