Judge: Jury won't take smell tour of Bladen County hog farm
RALEIGH — A federal judge decided Monday he won’t send jurors for a see-and-sniff tour of a North Carolina hog-growing operation at the center of a lawsuit claiming industrial-scale pork production creates smells too ugly to live near.Jurors wouldn’t get a true feel for conditions with one quick visit to a Bladen County farm growing animals for Murphy-Brown LLC, the hog production division of Virginia’s Smithfield Foods, U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt ruled. […]
