Could bacon get any tastier? Pig scientists and breeders say indeed it could, now that the pig genome has been sequenced and a trove of new genetic information is available. The group spelled out the ...

This is the first of a three-part series that over the next five months will chronicle the author’s effort to understand our relationship to the animals we eat. It will be at times unflinching, yet ...

This is the last of a three-part series that chronicles the author’s effort to understand our relationship to the animals we eat. The death we want for our animals is the one we want for ourselves: ...

The St. Clair County 4-H and Youth Fair members have some pretty big plans for two soon-to-be born pigs. The pigs will eventually feed the hungry, raise money for those who assist them and raise ...

Matthew Herbert is at the mercy of fate. He’s a chancer, a risk taker and a man who sees creative potential in the everyday, the banal and the fundamentally brutal. Taking the world around us and ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Thomas Birks, a member of the Nessie Project team, remembers what could have been his first clue for his ArtPrize 2010 entry. Birks would bring Cecilia, his potbelly pig, to visit his ...

Our slogan at 4-H is “Learn by Doing.” The 4-H Pig Squeal Project gives young people the opportunity to do just that. In January, each student receives two feeder hogs they care for through April.

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A Danish artist has stirred up controversy by giving Ugandan villagers free goats, sheep and pigs — but on condition that they adopt his name. Kristian von Hornsleth says his aim is to highlight the ...

Tilda Swinton reteamed with her Snowpiercer director Bong Joon Ho for her next movie, Okja - and it looks like she’s having a helluva time working on it. The actress features in a new promo video for ...

A host on The Project has revealed she was targeted in a 'pig butchering' scam. The sophisticated swindle involves criminals approaching people, often the old or the lonely, with a 'wrong number' ...

Earthy colours such as muted turquoise, sage green and brick red feature in this gastropub in California that was designed by Project M Plus to "stimulate the appetite and the senses". The Salted Pig ...