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Welcome to Hog Watch, Environmental Defense's central source for information and action on industrial hog farming in North Carolina.
Purposes of Hog Watch (Home)
- To provide an effective tool for the public, community activists, environmental groups, policymakers, and others to use in the campaign to confront the serious threats to human health and
the environment posed by hog factories
- To raise awareness and provide sound information to the public, policymakers, and other citizens concerned about the impacts of factory hog farming
- To provide opportunities for citizen input and action to influence how and when North Carolina addresses the issues of hog factories
- To promote ways for North Carolina to solve these problems once and for all
How the Web Site Works
Hog Watch has four main sections:
Get the Facts provides substantive and up-to-date information about the major issues, concerns, and potential solutions to the impacts of factory hog farming on public health and the environment. In this section, you can pay a virtual visit to a hog factory, listen and read first-hand about the true-life experiences of citizens living near hog operations, and learn the real facts behind the rhetoric and myths often publicized by the hog industry.
Make Your Voice Heard is where you can speak up and influence decisions and actions in North Carolina and across the country. Here, citizens can make a difference by contacting the Governor of North Carolina and other key leaders, especially when important decisions are about to be made.
Where the Hogs Are puts detailed information at your fingertips through interactive maps and high-tech databases that provide instant, updated data on every hog farm in North Carolina. You can learn how many hog factories are in each county, how many hogs and how much waste come from each factory, and what major company owns the hogs. Across the country, you can see how other states are faring with the hog industry explosion - how many hogs and how much animal waste for each state.
In the Resource Center you can find a comprehensive set of references on factory hog farming. You can hear first-hand interviews with citizens living near hog factories, get information on major hog producers and important legislation, test your knowledge with our games and quiz, and explore our reference library of publications, bibliographies, and other resources.
See our Site Map for more detailed information on the layout of Hog Watch.
You will notice while exploring the four major sections of Hog Watch that you are moving back and forth between two different web sites. The Hog Watch site is the home of Environmental
Defense's campaign to control hog waste pollution, and hosts our tour of hog operations, fact sheets, and resource center. The action tools (Make Your Voice Heard) and interactive maps (Where
the Hogs Are) are provided by Environmental Defense's Scorecard web site. Scorecard is an internet service being developed by Environmental Defense to provide easy public access to
information about a wide variety of environmental problems facing communities, including reports on animal waste from factory farms and toxic chemical releases from manufacturing facilities.
To help visitors move easily between the two sites, we provide the Hog Watch navigation bar along the top of all pages. If you are interested in bookmarking a specific page you like on
Scorecard (the hog report for your area, for example), right mouse click within the Scorecard report to escape the Hog Watch frame and open the Scorecard page in a new browser window. (If
you're using a Macintosh, just press and hold the mouse button on the Scorecard frame, then select "New Window with This Frame.")
Authors
Hog Watch was created by Environmental Defense, a leading national, nonprofit organization with an office in Raleigh, North Carolina. Environmental Defense links science, economics, and law to
create innovative, equitable, and economically viable solutions to today's environmental problems. Nationally, Environmental Defense represents 300,000 members, with over 8,000 members living
in North Carolina. Staff at the North Carolina office of Environmental Defense are playing a leading role in working with other environmental groups and citizens across the state to address
the problems associated with the explosion of hog factory farming.
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