Tennessee officials ‘discouraged’ from investigating Republican’s illegal pig farm

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/tennessee-officials-discouraged-from-investigating-republicans-illegal-pig-farm/



Tennessee state Rep. Andy Holt (R)

Tennessee officials ‘discouraged’ from investigating Republican’s illegal pig farm
Arturo Garcia
18 Feb 2015 at 17:58 ET

A Republican legislator in Tennessee was seemingly stumped when told that state investigators were “discouraged” from taking action against an unlicensed pig farm he operated for years despite numerous violations, WTFV-TV reported.

“I can honestly say that is not something that has ever been brought to my attention,” state Rep. Andy Holt (R) said when told about remarks by an unidentified inspector from the state Department of Environment and Conservation.

Holt’s farm, which he began operating in 2009, reportedly had as many as 1,400 pigs on it. He told WTFV that there were no more pigs on the site, and that it stopped producing pigs “sometime in 2014.” He ameded the statement in that same interview, saying it stopped producing pigs “since the end of 2014.”

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According to WTFV, hog carcasses were an ongoing concern for Holt’s farm dating back to 2011, when the inspector took photographs of not only dead hogs on the site, but hog waste flowing into a local creek — and turning it black — after it was pumped out of a nearby lagoon.