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Greeks from the 4TH CENTURY BC preferred rendered pig fat while the Romans used a mixture of honey

We are also living in close proximity to domestic creatures like pigs, chickens and ducks.

 Who can stop these adorable pigs? Jesse Hirsch Modern Farmer 25 april 2013 Feral pigs are overrunning America.

Radioactive feral pigs are threatening Europe. Destroying crops, spreading diseases.""Once a wild pig is full-grown,

it is invulnerable to almost all forms of predators angry alligators being one possible exception Â. Boars are smart, fast, hard to hunt."

"We're not going to shoot or trap our way out of this. Lethal removal just doesn't take the numbers that you need to control the population.

 The mind of a con manyudhijit Bhattacharjee New york times 26 april 2013 Admired Dutch psychologist admits to faking a whole career's worth of academic research."

Patients were being asked to infect themselves with live pig whipworm eggs to see if the parasites alleviated any of their symptoms

43%of those given pig whipworm eggs improved, compared with only 17%who received placebos.

and pig and human whipworms from Wormtherapy and Autoimmunetherapies, either travelling to Mexico or receiving mail-order worms from Lawrence.

 Testing stagenowadays, most researchers investigating helminthic therapies have abandoned bloodsucking hookworms in favour of pig whipworms,

as they have evolved to colonise swine and therefore cannot complete their life cycle within humans. Patients must re-infect themselves every few weeks

"Pig whipworm is very kosher, Â Weinstock says. At New york University, immunologist P'ng Loke found monkeys suffering from chronic diarrhoea not only got better after receiving a dose of pig whipworms

but also had significantly different gut microbes post-infection. He is currently enrolling ulcerative colitis patients to repeat the experiment in humans.

He has enrolled another 15 patients for a longer trial with pig whipworms, the results of which are expected at the end of this year.

Coronado Biosciences, a Massachusetts-based company, hopes to have results from two large studies being carried out in the US into the use of pig whipworm eggs to treat Crohn's disease by the end of the year.

Researchers discovered this by strapping stilts made of pig hairs onto the legs of the ants.

I only have to do it once to drill and sow. Considering that it costs him 9. 9 gallons (45 litres) of fuel an hour for 14-hour days over 2 weeks

a game that involves catapulting birds at elaborate fortresses constructed by evil pigs. But Angry Birds, a hit game by Rovio, a small Finnish company, is one of the unlikeliest pop-culture crazes of the year

Angry Birds, in which the birds seek revenge on the egg-stealing pigs, is meant to be played easily in the checkout line

and a sketch from an Israeli TV SHOW about a birds-and-pigs peace treaty was popular online.

along with a line of stuffed birds and pigs. It also hopes to spin the franchise into a movie or childrens TV SHOW.

#Zimbabwean Farmer Shocked As Cow Gives Birth To A Pig Could it be. Satan? A Zimbabwean farmer was left stunned

when his cow gave birth to a piglet. The farmer, Mr Tinos Mberi of Chatsworth in Masvingo eastern highlands of the country said he could not believe his eyes

He said it was impossible for a pig to mate with a cow. oethe whole body

and size was that of a piglet. The nose and mouth was like that of a pig,

except that it did not have a hairy body, said Mr Mberi. He said it was difficult to attribute the strange occurrence to anything other than witchcraft oei think it is the work of some black magicians.

although it was rare. oeit was deformed simply a calf that looked like a pig. Some deformed calves may look like monsters

The raising of livestock such as cows, pigs and sheep occupies two-thirds of the worlds farmland

and much less ammonia, a pollutant produced by pig and poultry farming. Being cold-blooded, insects convert plant matter into protein extremely efficiently,

Another project at the University of Guelph in Canada is developing a pig bred to digest food more effectively.

Pigs and tigers seem like theyd be natural enemies, but in captivity thats not always the case:

These photos from the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand show a tiger nursing a litter of piglets

(and this tiger herself was raised by a pig). But while the process isnt unheard of, this set of images brings up bigger issues:

and has certified eight others across the country for large animals cattle, sheep and pigs. A group of about 20 farmers in Western Maryland will meet with the USDA later this month to discuss bringing a mobile slaughterhouse to Washington

and has certified eight others across the country for large animals cattle, sheep and pigs. A group of about 20 farmers in Western Maryland will meet with the USDA later this month to discuss bringing a mobile slaughterhouse to Washington

#Pig Lungs Could Be transplanted Into Humans In 5 Years Pig lungs could soon be transplanted into humans Following a medical breakthrough,

pig lungs could be transplanted into humans to overcome a shortage of donor organs, a media report said Thursday citing Australian scientists.

Scientists have paved the way for animal-human transplanted in as little as five years, after keeping pig lungs alive and functioning with human blood.

The breakthrough came after scientists at Melbournes St vincents Hospital were able to remove a section of pig DNA called the Gal gene,

which made the pig organs incompatible with human blood. Professor Tony DAPICE who has been breeding pigs for possible transplants

since 1989, said human DNA was added to the engineered animals to control blood clotting and rejection in humans.

Glenn Westall, from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, said the world-first discovery meant pig-human lung transplants were a real prospect.

Previous attempts to combine unmodified pig lungs and human blood ended abruptly two years ago

He said the creation of genetically modified pigs was not ethically acceptable explaining: oeit is basically a human-pig, a hybrid,

or whatever you want to call it. oeit is about whether the community is prepared to accept a part human, part animal.

Article continues below 6. Pig in a Blanket Sometimes edible aphrodisiacs are meant never to be consumed,

#Pork Grown in a Petri dish Call it pork in a petri dish a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientists say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock,

and save some pigs their bacon. Dutch scientists have been growing pork in the laboratory since 2006,

they say the technology promises to have widespread implications for our food supply. oeif we took the stem cells from one pig

we would need one million fewer pigs to get the same amount of meat, said Mark Post,

Post and colleagues isolate stem cells from pigs muscle cells. They then put those cells into a nutrient-based soup that helps cells replicate to the desired number.

Limiting phytate production in the soybean could reduce a major environmental runoff contaminant from swine and poultry waste.

#Two-headed cyclops pig born in China Two heads are not always better than one.

This past week, a two-headed pig with one eye, was born on Xiao Jintu s pig farm,

I ve been raising pigs for 15 years and I ve never seen anything like this before#We knew something was different

#The piglet was of a litter of five and as of yet he has been given not a name.

This piglet is not the first two-headed pig ever born, but it is the latest.

2.)Rhodesian ridgeback dog, adopted an abandoned potbellied piglet in Aug 2009. Katjinga s owner, Roland Adam, found the piggy alone and cold

and brought it to his 8-year-old dog...3.)Pixie still had milk after giving birth to her 1st litter of pups few months earlier,

#7.)Three baby pigs rest next to their adoptive mother, Sai Mai, an 8-year-old tiger, at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand in January 2010.8.)

including families of baby pigs adopted by tiger mothers and families of tiger cubs adopted by mother pigs.

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#Genetically modified pigs could provide human organs by 2013 GM pigs could provide human organs for transplant.

and this has led experts to investigate methods of using pigs created with human genes, so that body parts grown in them can be harvested for use in patients without their immune systems rejecting them.

Organs grown in genetically modified pigs could be transplanted into humans in as little as two years time,

Now scientists say that a trial transplanting pigs corneas into humans with eye problems could begin by 2013.

With new genetically modified pigs becoming available that are likely to improve the outcome of cellular and corneal xenotransplantation further,

These problems mean that the longest survival time for pig organs in nonhuman primates to date ranges from a few days for lungs to around six to eight months for hearts,

Lifesaving transplants of a pig liver or heart could be justified as a bridge until a human organ becomes available.#

There are no such things as a pig molecules, or a fish molecules, or a wheat molecules.

Earl couldn t escape the fact that he was still a pig...The people who make globes know exactly where the north pole is...

before pigs can fly, they first need to learn how to climb trees...Two women working their way through their first lesson in cold shoulder training#..

As they used to say about pigs, they use everything but the squeak. Via Treehugger Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati e

Is it rude to invite a pig to a pig roast?..I have preferred always the reflection of life to life itself...

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#Zombie Ants Controlled by Four New Species of Fungi A stalk of the newfound fungus species Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani,

grass-fed cows and pigs served at Marlow & Sons, an eatery and drygoods store,

or three harvest before youll have to sow more seeds. What to Watch out For: Leaf amaranth is fairly easy to grow,

Sow carrot seeds two to three inches apart in a pot that is at least twelve inches deep.

The FAO reports that there are more than1000 edible insect species. Insects can provide protein in the diet at a much lower environmental cost than traditional livestock, such as cows, pigs, or sheep.

fish soup, duck fat potatoes, fusilli con cinghiale (pasta with wild boar. With each bite and sigh of delight,

#The exception was the wild boar, which was hunted, shot and skinned on private property near Paso Robles.

In the late 1990s, Bayer conducted trials on the product, known as Ropadiar in Europe, comparing its ability to control diarrhea in piglets caused by E coli with that of four of the company s products.

Furthermore, piglets treated with Ropadiar look much more healthy and were dehydrated not so and wasted.#

After hearing about Bell & Evans s use of oregano oil, Bob Ruth, the president of Country View Family Farms, a Pennsylvania-based company, decided to test it on some of his pigs.

Over the last six months, about 5, 000 pigs have eaten feed laced with By-O-Reg after being weaned from their mothers.

At Christmas and Easter, they would slaughter the family pig and enjoy small portions of larded pork for the next several months.

During a tour of their property, Thanasis and Eirini introduced their pigs to me by name.

#Glow-in-the-dark pigs created using jellyfish DNA http://www. vimeo. com/82227865 Scientists in China have used jellyfish DNA to create glow-in-the-dark piglets.

A technique developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of medicine allows the ten piglets to glow green under black fluorescent lights.

South China Agriculture University scientists were able to create the glow-in-the-dark pigs by injecting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA into pig embryos.

The green color simply indicates that the fluorescent genetic material injected into the pig embryos has been incorporated into the animal s natural make-up.#

and will have the same life span as other pigs.##oethe green is only a marker to show that it s working easily,

And a transgenic pig was able to pass on these genes by giving birth to two glowing piggies in 2008.

According to Britain s National Pig Association (NPA), which is a delightfully real thing, a worldwide shortage of bacon (and other pork products,

there are a variety of factors contributing to our little pig problem. The NPA largely attributed the shortage to the rising cost of food, a cost

or PED, is taking down piglets in 15 states. And as of now, there s no vaccine in the US just yet.

and ammonia than cattle or pigs and require less land for rearing. And whatnot, insects can also feed on organic by-products such as human and animal waste,

And to cap it all the risk that insects may transmit zoonotic infections may well be less significant than the very real risk posed by cattle, pig and poultry, from

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#China s dead pig dumping scandal Over 16,000 dead pigs have been found in China s rivers.

According to recent reports, over 16,000 dead pigs have been joined by 1, 000 dead ducks and, rather ominously, 13 dead black swans in China s rivers.

1. There are a lot of pigs in China. A lot of people, too. But, seriously, a lot of pigs. China has more people than any other country in the world,

and even those with only a passing knowledge of Chinese cuisine are aware of the central role that pork plays.

Unsurprisingly, as a result, there are a lot of pigs in China#round 700 million, according to a Marketwatch estimate.

By contrast, the United states, a country with around a quarter of China s population, has a mere 70 million porkers;

So it perhaps isn t too surprising that the country with a dead pig crisis is also the same one that consumes half of the world s pork.

Secondly, the small size of the farms means that there just isn t a lot of room to bury dead pigs#specially

if a lot of pigs all die at the same time from an illness. The Chinese government actually compensates large-scale farmers for their dead pigs,

but this only applies to those farmers who have more than 50 on their farm, leaving out the many millions of small-scale players in the market.

Therefore, a farmer with fewer than 50 pigs faces a choice when confronted with a carcass:

either give the pig up to the government for processing (and get nothing for their trouble)

and that worked fine until#3.#China cracked down on illegal pig meat. Responding to political pressure to avoid food supply scandals,

local authorities in Jiaxing recently cracked down on these#oedead pig merchants, #tossing three of them in jail for life for selling dead and/or diseased pigs to market.

As a result small-scale farmers in the area lost their one outlet for financial compensation, turning a once-lucrative dead pig into a deadweight loss.

At this point, then, the fast-flowing river nearby looked like a pretty attractive solution to an annoying (and smelly) dead pig problem.

Can the government make sure this sort of thing doesn t happen again? The agriculture sector is consolidating,

The dead pig problem is then, like teenage acne, just another awkward byproduct of China s rapid growth spurt.

When news of the dead pig fiasco broke the Communist party immediately declared that Shanghai s water supply was safe and later,

China s dead pigs can be dismissed as simply an unintended consequence of a government crackdown

and the sows that create them. This use case blew my mind and made me realize how diverse Iot can be.

Playfully destroying pigs or experiencing mind-numbing insta-gasms. Yeah you get the point. If there s one experience

#Top 14 Photos of the Week Maybe pigs can fly! Quote of the Week: The question isn t who is going to let me;

and increasingly popular delicacies (in South america) have more fur and faster metabolisms than any true pig.

and the only thing they share in common with true pigs is that they are mammals

and have nothing more in common with domesticated dogs than guinea pigs do with true pigs. The call of the prairie dog is thought to sound like the bark of a dog

#Ancient Humans Dined on Bacon from Weird, Spotted Pigs Ancient hunter-gatherers in Europe whose meat intake was limited once to wild game may have enjoyed bacon ham pork chops

and other tasty bites from pigs they owned starting about 7000 years ago researchers say.

The new findings suggest these hunter-gatherers had domesticated pigs about 500 years earlier than previously thought yielding new insights into the movements

or New Stone age farmers who migrated to Europe from the south between 5500 B c. and 4200 B c. owned domestic plants and animals such as sheep goats cattle and swine.

and did not have pigs sheep goats or cows all of which were introduced to Europe with incoming farmers in about 6000 B c. researcher Ben Krause-Kyora an archaeologist

now that the hunter-gathers possessed some of the farmers'domesticated pigs. The scientists analyzed the ancient DNA from the bones and teeth of 63 pigs in northern Germany from a Mesolithic site known as Ertebã¸lle and a number of Neolithic sites.

They found that as early as 4600 B c. the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers owned pigs that had both near-Eastern and European ancestry

which means they were domestic swine as opposed to wild boar. We address a longstanding debate in archaeology that has implications beyond northern Germany researcher Almut Nebel a molecular geneticist at Christian-Albrechts University told Livescience.

Our multidisciplinary approach can also be used to obtain information on cultural contact for example between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists for other areas of Europe and the world.

Genetic analysis revealed the domestic pigs had colorful coats and spots that likely would have seemed exotic and strange to the hunter-gatherers

and may have attracted them to the swine. Humans love novelty and though hunter-gatherers exploited wild boar it would have been hard not to be fascinated by the strange-looking spotted pigs owned by farmers living nearby researcher Greger Larson at Durham University

in England said in a statement. It should come as no surprise that the hunter-gatherers acquired some of the pigs eventually

but this study shows that they did very soon after the domestic pigs arrived in Northern europe.

Scientists are not sure whether the hunter-gatherers procured the pigs via trade or by capturing escaped animals.

Still given the close proximity of these two groups and how they occasionally exchanged artifacts the researchers suspect trade for pigs was a more likely scenario than hunting of escaped domestic pigs Krause-Kyora told Livescience.

The scientists detailed their findings in the Aug 27 issue of the journal Nature Communications. Follow Livescience@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.

whether thousands of pigs are being raised near their source of drinking water. These lumps of coal are bad enough on their own.

#Are Pigs as Smart as Dogs, and Does It Really Matter?(Op-Ed) Marc Bekoff emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder is one of the world's pioneering cognitive ethologists a Guggenheim Fellow and cofounder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical

With the catchy title Pigs smart as dogs? Activists pose the question it attracted almost 2000 comments as of this writing.

but comparing dogs to cats or dogs to pigs says little of importance. I always stress that intelligence is a slippery concept

which to make the claim that dogs for example are emotionally more complex than pigs or other food animals.

Thus the claim that it's okay to slaughter pigs for example rather than dogs because dogs would suffer more is misleading and vacuous

and the second by Melanie Joy called Why We Love Dogs Eat Pigs and Wear Cows (Conari Press 2011).

This article appeared as Are Pigs as Smart as Dogs and Does It Really Matter?

and attacking large animals like wild boar for herding livestock and for pit fighting. There's a myth that pit bulls have locking jaws that seize up when biting.

When Russ Kremer a fifth-generation hog farmer from Missouri was gored in the knee by one of his Yorkshire boars he figured it was a routine injury.

or fields fertilized with pig manure is also at greater risk of getting infected by a superbug.

Around the world industrial factory farms now account for approximately two-thirds of egg and poultry-meat production and more than half of pig-meat production.

The majority of pregnant sows egg-laying hens and other farm animals are housed in barren crowded cages and crates barely larger than their bodies.

As the period ends dogs cats and pigs become commonplace. Other than a few birds that were classified as dinosaurs most notable the Titanis the dinosaurs were gone.

Thriving populations of wolves deer lynx beaver eagles boar elk bears and other animals have been documented in the dense woodlands that now surround the silent plant.

Thousands of dead bloated pigs floating down the river that supplies Shanghai with its drinking water.

Top 10 Ways to Destroy Earth Water pollution Thousands of dead pigs floating past Shanghai dramatic though they are may be the least of China's water pollution worries.

In January a chemical accident leaked benzene a known cancer-causing agent into a tributary of the Huangpu River (where the dead pigs were discovered.

Since the 1950s when researchers cloned a frog scientists have cloned dozens of animal species including mice cats sheep pigs and cows.

However these small pigs require a bit of hoof-holding so to speak and are being released into the wild bit-by-bit gradually nudged toward self-sufficiency.

while the firstâ wolf  changed into a dog or a wild boar into a pig.

because unlike chickens pigs and cows insects are not warm-blooded Sorkin said. As a result they do not have to expend energy to keep themselves warm

Brilliantly colored birds like golden pheasants and temminck's tragopans posed for pictures too as did haired yellow-throated martens golden takins and wild boars.

#Experts Fear Airborne Spread of Deadly Pig Virus A deadly virus that's just recently appeared in the United states is killing off millions of pigs nationwide

And PEDV strikes young pigs with menacing force: The mortality rate among piglets is almost 100 percent.

Older pigs usually get sick but eventually recover according to Pork magazine. In the blink of an eye 30000 pigs were dead John Prestage senior vice president at Prestage Farms in Oklahoma told Reuters. 10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species PEDV was seen initially in Europe in the 1970s.

It soon spread through Asia and first showed up in the United states in April Reuters reports.

It's difficult to say how many pigs nationwide may have contracted PEDV or died from it: The illness is considered not reportable meaning that pork producers are obligated not to report an outbreak to agriculture officials.

Nonetheless by Sept. 8 more than 610 farms were confirmed to have pigs with the disease. The virus is not zoonotic meaning it has jumped not yet species to infect humans or other animals according to a statement from the National Pork Board.

But that could change: Recent research has revealed that 13 zoonotic viruses infect and kill an estimated 2. 2 million people each year.

He lost about 15000 piglets this summer or about $1 million worth of livestock. It moved too fast for tires too fast for feet Smith told Reuters. The only thing that touched each pig was the wind.

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#Feral Pigs Going Hog-Wild in US Feral pigs are becoming a wild problem in the United states. The wild hogs can now be found in three-fourths of U s. states

and other wildlife according to the AP. Feral pigs habit of digging and rooting around in the ground also tears up gardens

 $1 million hunt But the state of New mexico isn't letting the pigs get away with those antics.

because the pigs are so smart that they can learn from failed efforts to trap them

Hunters will also employ a Judas pig. After finding and killing a hog family officials will intentionally leave one pig alive usually an adult female.

This Judas pig will then be outfitted with a tracking collar in order to lead state officials to a new set of pigs

which the surviving hog will seek out the AP reports. Image Gallery: The Most Destructive Invasive Species Multiplying hogs Texas may have the most wild hogs of any U s. state

and the situation is expected to worsen despite the $7 million per year that Texans spends to keep the animals'numbers down the AP reports.

 A recent study by Texas A&m University found that the number of feral pigs is likely to triple in five years in the state of Texas

if serious efforts aren't made to reduce feral-pig populations according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

If a feral-hog sow produces a dozen piglets 13 survive goes an old joke according to the Avalanche-Journal.

But feral-pig reproduction is no laughing matter. The animals may start reproducing when they re just 6 months old and their litters average about six sows reports Mississippi State university.

They produce an average of 1. 5 litters per year. Feral pigs were introduced to North america in the 1500s by Spanish explorers

and were used for hunting. In the wild they can grow to be up to 300 pounds (136 kilograms) or more according to U s. government figures.

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