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  • July 2008

    • Piglets-for-Girls Bargain Saves Thousands

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Jul 22, 08 4:53 PM CDT

      Piglets-for-Girls Bargain Saves Thousands

      An American’s plan to keep poor Nepalese families from selling daughters into slavery by offering them pigs has saved thousands of girls in the Himalayan country, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The non-profit founded by Olga Murray gives pigs (which, grown, fetch the same $35-75 buyers would pay for a girl) in exchange for promises the girls will be sent to school. More »

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      poverty  • Nepal  • pigs

    • Army Pig-Shoot Angers Animal Rights Activists

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 18, 08 9:12 AM CDT

      Army Pig-Shoot Angers Animal Rights Activists

      The Army is butting heads with animal rights activists over a planned drill that involves shooting live pigs. As practice for battlefield medical care, soldiers will fire at the pigs, then rush to save them. "It's to teach Army personnel how to manage critically injured patients within the first few hours of their injury," said an Army spokesman. More »

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      animal rights  • PETA  • Army  • pigs  • Military  • medical training  • soldiers

  • June 2008

    • Pigs Survive Floods, Still Buy the Farm

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 19, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      Pigs Survive Floods, Still Buy the Farm

      They managed to survive torrential rains and swam mightily through rising water, but a clutch of feisty midwestern pigs couldn't dodge a sheriff's bullet. At least a dozen porkers were shot dead this week as they scrambled on Iowa levees. "My gosh, it happens every day," snapped a town official who said the pigs were killed to protect the levees. "That's how we get bacon and pork chops." More »

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      Iowa  • flood  • levees  • pigs

  • May 2008

    • Regrown Finger Called 'Absurd'

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  May 1, 08 7:36 PM CDT

      Regrown Finger Called 'Absurd'

      A UK plastic surgeon repudiated claims by an American company that a powder made from a pig’s bladder spurred regrowth of a man’s severed fingertip, the Guardian reports. Stories circulated this week of Lee Spievack’s “miraculous” recovery thanks to what he called “pixie dust,” but Simon Kay, professor of hand surgery at the University of Leeds, said the reports were “junk science.” More »

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      medical research  • plastic surgery  • hoax  • pigs

  • February 2008

    • Possible Heparin Deaths Increase; Recall Expands

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 29, 08 8:07 AM CST

      Possible Heparin Deaths Increase; Recall Expands

      Baxter International has expanded its recall of heparin products as the FDA said the number of deaths possibly linked to the blood thinner rose from 4 to 21, the New York Times reports. The agency said it found "deficiencies" at a Chinese plant that supplied the active ingredient. Baxter, which produces about half of the nation's supply, has now recalled virtually all of its heparin products. More »

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      China  • Heparin  • Baxter International  • blood thinner  • pigs

    • Illness Linked to Pig Brains

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Feb 4, 08 9:41 AM CST

      Illness Linked to Pig Brains

      A dozen workers at a Minnesota slaughterhouse are showing symptoms of a new illness linked to inhaling bits of pig brains, the Washington Post reports. Symptoms include sensations of burning, numbness, and weakness in the arms and legs. All of the afflicted worked at or near the Austin packing house’s “head table,” where compressed air was used to remove pigs’ brains. More »

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      Minnesota  • immigrant  • illness  • pigs  • slaughterhouses  • Centers for Disease Control

  • June 2007

    • Chinese Pork Prices Soar

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 8, 07 8:23 AM CDT

      Chinese Pork Prices Soar

      This price of pigs and pork in China has skyrocketed this year, nudging up domestic inflation and triggering worries about a domino effect in worldwide markets. The government is scrambling to react to pressure on the price of the vital commodity, the Times reports, even weighing the possibility of releasing part of the intriguingly named strategic pork reserve. More »

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      China  • food  • inflation  • world economy  • pork  • pigs

  • May 2007

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