Industrial pig production was once seen as bad for the environment. But now, science has brought clever solutions. The sustainable livestock movement is already making a difference, working quietly to ...

Well, wow. National legislators stand up to oppose the use of tax revenues to subsidize large-scale confinement pig farms out of concern for food safety and antibiotic resistance, declaring that they ...

After a major outbreak of African swine fever in 2018, China massively industrialized its pig farming sector to ensure food ...

A new report by the BBC reveals that China isn’t just experimenting with cloning—it’s doing it on an “industrial scale.” Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a small cause for concern.

Many small businesses and smallholders are losing income by selling their output based on estimates of the weight, but a new measuring system in western Kenya has found farmers losing as much as ...

DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Walking through swarms of flies at his piggery on the outskirts of Beijing, Liu Jin shows off 1,500 hormone-free black hogs raised for China's growing organic meat market. Liu employs a dozen people ...

The xenotransplant team at the University of Alabama-Birmingham which was able to successfully preform a transplant of a pig kidney to a brain-dead human patient. The successful transplantation by ...