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A chicken house in Seagrove, N.C. North Carolina is one of the country’s largest poultry producers. As farms move closer to residential areas, neighbors are complaining that the waste generated is a potential health hazard.
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North Carolina is one of the country’s largest poultry producers — and getting bigger. Large-scale chicken farms are spreading across the state. Government regulations have allowed these farms to get much closer to where people live. That’…