For many centuries, Rwandans were more attached to cows, goats, and sheep when it came to livestock farming, while pigs were mostly overlooked and considered dirty animals. Similarly, eating pork ...

The institution has demonstrated to the locals that unlike cattle, pigs are low maintenance, low risk and have high returns. To minimise costs, they feed the pigs on locally available feeds that are ...

(WSAW) - As part of National Pork Month for October, the National Pork Board is teaming up with Emmy Award-winning actor Eric Stonestreet to clear up some myths about pig farming. Stonestreet is best ...

As part of its ongoing effort to dispel common misconceptions about modern pig farming, the National Pork Board is teaming up with country music superstar and five-time Entertainer of the Year winner, ...

The U.S. pork industry is releasing its first-ever farming responsibility report: 2012 Pork Industry Progress Report, Responsible Farming. Our Heritage. Our Future. The 36-page report details the ...

CANDO, N.D. - Excuse her, but Carie Moore would like to share words of support on behalf of ... pigs. Moore, 40, is a farmer, mother of four and a professional soil conservationist at Cando. But she ...

A recent report by The Animal Law Foundation revealed widespread misinformation from producers about animal welfare and farming practices ...

An artist in Denmark aims to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that includes three piglets who will be denied food and water and will starve to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's largest pig farming companies and new entrants are racing to build vast, modern hog farms in the north-eastern cornbelt, expanding the world's biggest pork market and ...

For decades across Europe, human food waste (table scraps, that kind of thing) had been recycled into food for pigs. From a 2013 BBC article: “As recently as the 1990s ‘pig bins,’ into which uneaten ...