In the Yucatan, the High Cost of a Boom in Factory Hog Farms

Yale e360
Aug 25, 2025, 4:32 am316 ptsTop
In “Slaughter-land” — the First-Place Winner of the 2025 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — two Latin American filmmakers document how hundreds of mega-farms that contain tens of thousands of pigs are trampling Indigenous rights and befouling the air and water in the Yucatan. Read more on E360 →

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