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Author:
Corban Addison, John Grisham
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
June 7, 2022
A once idyllic American landscape is home to a closely knit, rural community that, for more than a generation, has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming that had been making them sick and damaging their homes. After years of frustration and futile attempts to bring about change, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, brought suit against one of the world's most powerful corporations-and, miraculously, they won. Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America's farmland, and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. W
What The Reviewers Say
The extraordinary story of how some neighbors of hog operations in North Carolina battled a meatpacking company polluting their neighborhoods.
As Addison shows, there is a better way to handle waste on large hog farms, but corporations resist spending the money. Especially interesting for ag-law students and any reader who appreciates stories of justice served..
Absorbing and inspiring.
Exceptional.
