Tag: Pigs
We’re creating ‘humanized pigs’ in our ultraclean lab to study human...
Christopher Tuggle, Iowa State University and Adeline Boettcher, Iowa State University
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires all...
Could China’s strategic pork reserve be a model for the US?
David L. Ortega, Michigan State University
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, we became accustomed to face-masked shoppers, social distancing and one-way aisles at...
‘Organic’ label doesn’t guarantee that holiday ham was a happy pig
Michael Haedicke, Drake University
This holiday season, Americans will buy some 20 million turkeys and 300 million pounds of ham.
Some of these turkeys and hams...
Is it ethical to keep pets and other animals? It depends...
David Favre, Michigan State University
New York City’s comprehensive new code for animal welfare restricts when horse-drawn carriages can operate and bans the sale of...
Feral pigs harm wildlife and biodiversity as well as crops
Marcus Lashley, Mississippi State University
They go by many names – pigs, hogs, swine, razorbacks – but whatever you call them, feral pigs (Sus scrofa)...
American farmers want trade partners not handouts – an agricultural economist...
Amanda M. Countryman, Colorado State University
The Trump administration plans to give American farmers and ranchers hurt by the current trade war US$12 billion in...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
