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pig stories: 26 news summaries

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PRINCESS PIGLETTE

Paris to PETA: Pig Better Off With Me Than as Bacon

Hilton escalates feud, says she treats 'pets like children'

Oct 15, 09 9:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Paris Hilton is still squealing with excitement over her new miniature piglet—“It’s a girl!” she tells Us—but she’s not pleased with PETA, which called her a “wretched example” for treating her pets “as disposable.” Not true, the heiress says: “... More »

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entertainment • Paris Hilton • celebrity • PETA • feud • pig

PRINCESS PIGLETTE

 PETA Peeved Over Paris' Pig 

Hilton's latest accessory angers perpetually pissed animal rights organization

Oct 14, 09 6:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA has found a new poster child for its ire: Paris Hilton, who recently adopted a $4,500 miniature piglet. Despite naming the animal “Princess Piglette,” TMZ notes, PETA claims the "wretched example" treats her pets like “disposable accessories”—“as disposable as her friends,... More »

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entertainment • Paris Hilton • celebrity • animal rights • PETA • pig

Bacon-Flavored Donuts? Fine. Vodka? Fine.
But Coffee? No!

UK blogger marvels at Americans' love of pork

Jul 1, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bacon has been popping up everywhere, observes Hattie Garlick for the Times of London. Store shelves teem with chocolate-covered bacon, bacon-flavored vodka, and bacon-flavored donuts, but she almost couldn’t believe the latest culinary staple to get the pig treatment: coffee. “It's a beautiful marriage of two culinary powerhouses—... More »

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food • coffee • pig • donut • vodka • pork • bacon

 Swine Flu Confirmed in UK 

Pair brings disease home from a trip to Mexico

Apr 27, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two British citizens have contracted swine flu, the virus that has killed at least 149 people in Mexico and sickened 20 in the US, the Guardian reports. The pair returned from a trip to Mexico last week and fell ill, the Scottish health minister said today. Seven others who had... More »

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United Kingdom • United States • bacteria • infection • pig • virus • Britain • swine flu

 Bizarre Swine Flu 
 Strikes West 

Newly detected swine flu virus may be spreading from person to person

Apr 24, 09 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Seven people in California and Texas have been struck by swine flu despite having no contact with pigs, the Los Angeles Times reports. Baffled investigators believe the unusual, newly detected form of the flu may be spreading from person to person. The symptoms are similar to standard influenza, leading officials... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • pig • swine • outbreak • influenza • flu

OPINION

 'Better' Pork Carries 
 Big Health Risks  

Free-range pork may relieve your guilt, but bother your tummy

Apr 10, 09 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Free-range pork sounds better for everyone involved, especially the pig. But exposure to the outdoors means exposure to dangerous pathogens, from salmonella to toxoplasmosis to the deadly parasite trichinosis, writes James McWilliams for the New York Times. "Free range is like piggy day care, a thoughtfully arranged system designed... More »

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agriculture • parasites • farming • salmonella • pig • farm • pork • locavore • toxoplasmosis • trichinosis • free range

Critics Beef About Pig Explosions in US Army Tests

Campaigners question need to test body armor by blowing up pigs in Humvees

Apr 8, 09 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Animal rights activists have condemned the US military for blowing up live pigs to test body armor, USA Today reports. Military officials say the tests provided valuable information on the relationship between body armor and brain injury. But critics say the pig-blasting program caused unnecessary animal suffering for questionable results.... More »

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US military • animal rights • explosion • animal testing • Humane Society • pig • swine • body armor

(Newser) - A documentary on animal cruelty at an Ohio hog farm has the pork industry considering how to better represent its “commitment to animal care,” Reuters reports. The footage in Death on a Factory Farm, taken secretly, led to animal-cruelty prosecutions, though the charged workers were acquitted. HBO airs... More »

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HBO • Ohio • animal cruelty • pig • pork • documentary film • prosecutions • National Pork Board • factory farm

 Even Planes 
 Are Greener 
 Than This Guy 

Rising meat consumption key concern at environment conference

Dec 4, 08 7:45 AM CST
(Newser) - This week ministers from 187 nations are gathering in Poland to discuss a new treaty on global warming, and one of the central issues will be not belching smokestacks but cows, pigs, and chickens. Rising global living standards have led to soaring meat consumption; emissions from livestock now generate 18%... More »

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climate change • environment • agriculture • meat • cows • methane • pig • western diet

 Boar 
 Crashes 
 Church 
 Breakfast 

2008 has seen a rash of boar attacks

Nov 28, 08 6:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Mothers and their children were eating breakfast in a Frankfurt church yesterday when a wild boar come crashing in through a glass door, Der Spiegel reports. The sow ran feverishly around the room and exited the same way it came in, leaving moms and kids standing on chairs and... More »

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Germany • church • pig • animal • boar


 Where's the Beef?
 Being Butchered 
 in the Kitchen 

To get the best cuts and top quality, more chefs go DIY

Oct 1, 08 1:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brooklyn eatery Marlow & Sons gets its pork by the pig and beef by the half-ton steer, and it's not alone in its whole-hog approach. A growing number of restaurants are sidestepping industrial meat all together, instead butchering entire carcasses right on the premises. There's some of the old "... More »

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beef • meat • Brooklyn • restaurant • pig • locally grown food • butcher

 Pigs Savaged 
 in PETA Farm Video 

Undercover film shows workers beating sows, slamming piglets to ground

Sep 17, 08 7:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Undercover investigators for the anti-cruelty organization PETA have filmed shocking cruelty to pigs at an Iowa farm, AP reports. Pigs are seen being beaten with metal rods while a supervisor brags of jamming rods in sows' anuses. Unhealthy piglets are slammed against the floor and left to die writhing in... More »

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Iowa • livestock • animal cruelty • PETA • pig • farm • Hormel Foods Corp. • animal

OPINION

Lying Corrupts Campaigns Just as Money Can

Maybe it's time for finance reformer to swear off fabrications

Sep 11, 08 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - We all know John McCain wasn’t really offended by Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment—the one he pretended to think was a reference to Sarah Palin. “The whole controversy is ginned up, a fraud, a lie,” writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington ... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • pig • lipstick • lying • Sarah Palin

Piglets-for-Girls Bargain Saves Thousands

Nepalese spared from slavery, sent to school by non-profit program

Jul 22, 08 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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poverty • Nepal • pig • indentured servitude • girl slaves • Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation • Olga Murray

Army Pig-Shoot Angers Animal Rights Activists

Porkers shot and revived for medical training

Jul 18, 08 9:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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military • animal rights • PETA • US Army • soldier • medical training • pig

Hunters Battle Invasion of Hungry Hogs

Tough, wily, feral swine are spreading fast through the US 

Jun 21, 08 6:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hog hunters are finding their services in demand as the wild beasts spread across the country, reports the New York Times. The porkers—descendants of pigs brought by Spanish explorers, escaped swine from farms, and wild boar released by hunters—weigh up to 400 pounds and cause around $800 million... More »

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hunting • pig • swine • wild hog • animal

Pigs Survive Floods, Still
Buy the Farm

Iowa cops shoot
the porkers as they scramble on levees

Jun 19, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Iowa • flood • pig • levees

 Regrown Finger Called 'Absurd' 

Scientist blast man's claim that pig-bladder 'pixie dust' restored digit

May 1, 08 7:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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,”... More »

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plastic surgery • medical research • pig • hoax • junk science • severed finger • quackery

Roger Waters' Giant Inflatable Pig—Found!

Remains of Pink Floyd alum's swine end up at country club

Apr 29, 08 6:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - The bus-sized, helium-filled pig unintentionally unleashed by Pink Floyd alum Roger Waters at the Coachella music festival Sunday has been found—in two pieces—at a nearby country club, reports the Desert Sun of Palm Springs. "It is entirely possible that I have at least part of your pig,... More »

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pig • Pink Floyd • Roger Waters

 UK Pig Farmers Squeal Poverty 

As high feed costs drive losses, protests seek higher pork prices

Mar 26, 08 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Floundering British pig farmers are on the march behind a curious protest song: "Stand by Your Ham." With feed prices soaring, UK farmers say they're losing $50 on every pig they sell, so they’re begging anyone who’ll listen to support higher pork prices, reports the Wall ... More »

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meat • pig • farmer • Britain • pork • feed prices

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