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Environmentalists rely on volunteer pilot program to do aerial surveillance of animal facilities

By Will Atwater If the weather conditions are right, you can smell the stench of an industrial hog facility from an airplane flying at 1,500 feet.  That’s Rick Dove’s experience, drawn from decades of flying over eastern North Carolina. During a recent flight, Dove pointed out the confined animal feeding operations — hog and poultry […]