
Filename:
WAM191
Headline:
Activist Elsie Herring, stands on the porch of her family home, holding a handkerchief over her mouth to filter out manure being sprayed on the field next door. Duplin County, North Carolina, USA, 2018. Jo-Anne McArthur / #unboundproject / We Animals
Description:
Elsie Herring is an environmental activist and the great-granddaughter of a freed slave. Herring became an outspoken activist after a pig CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) replaced the small family farm next door to her family’s property. The farm, like countless others around it, employs the standard industry practice of spraying manure on to fields as a waste disposal system. The spray drifts onto Elsie’s family home every day which has resulted in serious health problems, such as respiratory and skin infections.
Area of Focus:
Compassion and Change,Environment and Health,Food Systems
Supplemental categories:
Activism, Environmental Disasters, Factory Farming, Food Systems, Health Consequences of Farms, Hurricane Florence, Pigs, Unbound
Sublocation:
Duplin County
Province/State:
North Carolina
Country:
USA
Photographer/Filmmaker:
Jo-Anne McArthur
Credit:
Jo-Anne McArthur / #unboundproject / We Animals
Year:
2018
License Type(s):
Non-Commercial Use
Release status:
No release
WA Keywords:
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