Quote: “Duplin County has the nation’s highest concentration of industrial hog farms, with about 2 million pigs and 60,000 people. Environmental groups estimate the state’s 8 million hogs produce about 14 billion gallons of waste a year. Nationally, according to the most recent report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, feedlots for cattle, dairy cows, hogs, and poultry produce 300 million tons of manure a year.
There are about 2 million pigs in Duplin County (none as cute as this one). The problem is how to dispose of it.
Note:
(a) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplin_County,_North_Carolina
(formed in 1750; was named for Thomas Hay, Viscount Dupplin, later 9th Earl of Kinnoull)
(b) swine (singular and plural are the same: swine) www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swine