Climate Change
Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills
A Blue Cross employee told the filmmaker in an email that the screening was called off by the health insurer, which counts the North Carolina Farm Bureau as a major customer. The Farm Bureau, a leading hog advocate, says it had nothing to do with the screening.
René Miller rests in a recliner in a darkened room, gasping through a nebulizer to ease her asthma. On days like this, the air smells so acrid it feels like her lungs are filled with shards of glass.