Corban Addison tells the story of a rural North Carolina community's legal battle against one of the world's largest food companies, revealing how industrial animal agriculture has transformed the American countryside and poisoned the lives of those living near massive hog operations. When residents of Duplin County sued over the odors, flies, and pollution from industrial hog farms, they challenged not just one company but an entire system that prioritizes efficiency over community health. Addison, a lawyer turned novelist, follows the litigation through trial and appeal, introducing readers to the plaintiffs whose lives were disrupted by operations housing thousands of hogs in concentrated facilities. He explains how vertical integration gave large corporations control over production while leaving waste management to contract farmers and surrounding communities. The book examines the political influence that protects industrial agriculture from regulation, the environmental justice dimensions of siting polluting facilities near low-income communities of color, and the health effects on neighbors who cannot escape the contamination. Addison balances legal drama with systemic analysis, showing how individual cases fit into broader struggles over land use, corporate power, and who bears the costs of cheap food. The result is both gripping narrative and careful documentation of an agricultural system whose externalities fall heavily on those with the least power to resist.