Florence and the Meat Machine

Some pretty devastating pictures in today's Washington Post, showing the damage done by animal feeding operations. Cesspools of hog waste, flooding the environment for miles, washing down rivers; that's pretty much as bad as the coal ash reservoirs, breached by the flood, sending accumulated heavy metals downstream. It's going to take a very long time to clean up after this, and remember: North Carolina's gerrymandered legislature has been given the legal OK to continue to organize its voting along racial lines, ensuring that racists and anti-environmental groups still hold sway. Appalling.