On first inspection, the pig would seem a strange choice as a global symbol for good luck, fertility and prosperity. The pig’s renowned poor personal hygiene and questionable diet don’t make ...

NEW YORK -- A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It's ...

Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

“Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses ...

Rosenblum, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written three other books on Jews and food, has spent 20 years pondering the question, “Why the pig?” ...

Muslim teachers attend a Chinese calligraphy event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to mark the Year of the Pig Communities around the world are gearing up to celebrate the lunar new year, which this ...

Piglet diarrhoea causes up to 70% of mortality in pig production. Piglets, especially during weaning, face stressors related to their living environment, social interactions, and dietary habits.

VIPPEROD, Denmark - European scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm capable of interpreting pig ...

One member of her farm family is a potbelly pig named Possum, whom she took in as a runt "falling way behind in growth," she told Newsweek. After Possum and his sibling, Wilby, gained some ...

Rosenblum, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written three other books on Jews and food, has spent 20 years pondering the question, “Why the pig?” ...

Rosenblum’s new book, “Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig.” The “consumer” of course is the Jew, and those “sensitivities” are the result of a history that turned ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity. In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher ...