Pig farming, pork farming, or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed...
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Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing...
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The environmental impact of pig farming is mainly driven by the spread of feces and waste to surrounding neighborhoods, polluting air and water with toxic...
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Agriculture in the United Kingdom (redirect from Pig farming in the United Kingdom)
often treated as a waste product. Pig farming is concentrated in Yorkshire and East Anglia. About 4,600 farms produce pigs, and the UK is 90% self-sufficient...
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industrialized nations, commenced factory farming of beef and dairy cattle and domestic pigs. In 1967, there were one million pig farms in America; as of 2002, there...
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A suckling pig is a piglet fed on its mother's milk (i.e., a piglet which is still a "suckling"). In culinary contexts, a suckling pig is slaughtered...
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pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when...
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Hog farm may refer to: Pig farming Intensive pig farming, modern large-scale farming of domestic pigs Hog Farm, America's longest running hippie commune...
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Agriculture in New Zealand (section Pig farming)
900 pigs in New Zealand in June 2019. Canterbury is by far the largest pig-farming region with 161,600 pigs, 63.1% of the national population. Pigs are...
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White is one of the most numerous of all pig breeds, widely used in crossbreeding for intensive pig farming around the world. It was originally developed...
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intensive pig farming, which is both a common economic activity as well as a traditional feast in some European and Asian countries. Pigs are slaughtered...
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Trichinosis (section Pig farming)
Trichinella The typical lifecycle for T. spiralis involves humans, pigs, and rodents. A pig becomes infected when it eats infectious cysts in raw meat, often...
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Farming Simulator is a farming simulation video game series developed by GIANTS Software. The locations are based on American and European environments...
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Large Black (redirect from Large Black pig)
Howitt Report discouraged rearing of all but three pig breeds suitable for intensive pig farming. By the 1960s the breed was almost extinct. Although...
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Swineherd (redirect from Pig farmer)
1844-48 and 1851-65 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swineherds. Pig farming Porcarius, Latin for swineherd, sometimes used as a name "Bible Gateway...
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and the world's richest farmer. He is the chair and president of the pig farming company Muyuan Foodstuff and is one of the richest people in China. According...
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2011 Hampshire, Oklahoma State University, retrieved December 19, 2011 "Pig Farming". The Canadian Encyclopedia. "US National Swine Registry: Hampshire"...
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Feedback (pork industry) (category Pig farming)
intensive pig farming. The Animal Legal Defense Fund has called it "disgusting, unethical and unlawful" and has filed a lawsuit against one pig farm for...
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(MP) for Bridlington and The Wolds since 2024. Dewhirst comes from a pig farming family near Driffield in East Yorkshire. Dewhirst attended the University...
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promote awareness and create change on the issue of factory farming, most notably of pigs and egg laying hens. Tactics undertaken include rescuing animals...
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Pig Farmer may refer to: Swineherd, a pig farmer a person involved in pig farming Squealer (2023 film), 2023 U.S. horror film, having the working title...
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documentary sequel to Lucent (2014), which mostly focused on the Australian pig farming industry. Following its release, Dominion received the award for Best...
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Gestation crate (category Pig farming)
the countries where gestation crates are still used in conventional pig farming operations. The use of gestation crates following mating will be phased...
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documentary film Pig Business, broadcast on Channel 4 in 2009, highlighting the environmental and health impacts of intensive factory pig farming. She founded...
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Pig breeds. Animals portal List of sheep breeds List of goat breeds List of cattle breeds Lists of domestic animal breeds "Arapawa Pig Info, Farming,...
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Muyuan Foodstuff (category Pig farming)
first farm in 1992. By 1994 they had 2,000 pigs, and by 1997 they had 10,000. In 2000 Qin founded Muyuan Farming (牧原养殖), the company that would eventually...
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Iowa Select Farms (category Pig farming)
than 5 million pigs on 800 CAFOs in 50 Iowa counties. Throughout the 1990s there was rural backlash against the expansion of factory farming with its negative...
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