SAC CITY, Iowa—An Iowa woman is facing criminal charges after more than 1,000 pigs were found dead on a property. KCCI-TV reports that the Sac County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call Thursday and found the animals dead at two confinement sites. Authorities say 33-year-old Elana Laber was responsible for maintaining the sites. The sheriff’s […]
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And breeding-pigs now have more space in California under a new law. But some pigs will have to wait–after grocers and restaurant owners sued to delay the implementation.
SANTO DOMINGO—The Dominican Republic will slaughter tens of thousands of pigs after detecting outbreaks of African swine fever in 11 of the country’s 32 provinces, authorities said on Monday. Fernando Duran, administrator of the state-run Banco Agricola, told a news conference the government will pay pig farmers the market price of each animal slaughtered. Announcement […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—Thanks to a reworked menu and long hours, Jeannie Kim managed to keep her San Francisco restaurant alive during the coronavirus pandemic. That makes it all the more frustrating that she fears her breakfast-focused diner could be ruined within months by new rules that could make one of her top menu items—bacon—hard to […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—Authorities in Iowa had to round up more than 1,700 young pigs who were in a semi-trailer that overturned Thursday on a freeway just north of Des Moines. The crash happened about 1:30 p.m. local time when the truck overturned on a ramp to Interstate 35. Iowa State Patrol troopers had to close […]
Around a quarter of the world’s pigs are expected to die from African swine fever as the disease spreads worldwide, the World Organization for Animal Health’s (OIE) president said Thursday. The disease rapidly spread across China last year, which has half of the world’s population of pigs, said Dr. Mark Schipp, the organization’s president, at a […]
NEW YORK—Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death. The brains could not think or sense anything, researchers stressed. By medical standards “this is not a living brain,” said Nenad Sestan of the Yale School […]
Warning: Images may be disturbing to some. A 10-year-old girl caught a gruesome infection after playing in a pigsty, researchers said. The “otherwise healthy” girl, who was not named, played in a pigsty without wearing shoes, researchers wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine. The girl suffered papules and lesions on the soles of […]
BEIJING—Chinese hog prices marched to their highest in 14 months on March 11 and look set to keep rising after weeks of gains, analysts and producers said, as the worst disease outbreak to hit the country’s vast pig herd in years impacts supply. China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of pork. Live hog […]
China’s 400 million pigs may soon be forced to go on a diet. The China Feed Industry Association (CFIA) plans to reduce the protein content in animal feed due to the effects the Sino–U.S. trade war has had on China’s supply of soybeans. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime imposed a 25 percent retaliatory […]
About 3.4 million chickens and turkeys and 5,500 hogs have been killed in flooding from Florence as rising North Carolina rivers swamped dozens of farm buildings where the animals were being raised for market, according to state officials. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture issued the livestock mortality totals Tuesday, as major flooding is continuing […]
A pig-carrying truck crashed on a highway in Japan. Nineteen of 37 pigs inside escaped onto the road. None of the pigs were harmed in the crash. They held up traffic for five hours until police could round them all up. The pigs were headed to the butchers. After recapture, they continued on to the […]
