Dossier
Loganton
Coverage of Loganton in the Nexus archive.
- Blood in the well: One town’s fight against the slaughterhouse polluting it
Trish Leigey and neighbors in Loganton, Pennsylvania, sued Nicholas Meat after bovine DNA contaminated their water, linked to the company's waste practices. A jury awarded $145,000 in damages, but the verdict is unlikely to change industry practices due to lenient right-to-farm laws and economic pressures.