Press Play with Madeleine Brand
North Carolina's floods
Some of the flooding in North Carolina could lead to an environmental disaster. That’s because North Carolina is, as the New Yorker puts it, the slaughterhouse of the East Coast. There are 45 times as many hogs as people in the state.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readSome of the flooding in North Carolina could lead to an environmental disaster. That’s because North Carolina is, as the New Yorker puts it, the slaughterhouse of the East Coast. There are 45 times as many hogs as people in the state. There are millions of chickens in poultry farms as well.
