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    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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    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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    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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  • industrialized nations, commenced factory farming of beef and dairy cattle and domestic pigs. As a result, farming became concentrated on fewer larger farms...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Sty (redirect from Pig pen)
    these operations prevented this from occurring. Aldred's Case Pig farming Pig slaughter Pig toilet Slaughter house St Fagans National History Museum "Origin...
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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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    Hogwood: A Modern Horror Story (category Pig farming)
    a 2020 documentary film focussing on an undercover investigation of a UK pig farm. The film was created by UK charity Viva!, directed by Tony Wardle and...
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    Farming Simulator is a farming simulation video game series developed by GIANTS Software. The locations are based on American, European (and possibly Asian...
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    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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  • 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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    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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    Swill (redirect from Pig swill)
    perceived as unpalatable or nearly so. Pig swill, hog swill, or hogwash is kitchen refuse used to feed pigs. Historically, pig farmers arranged collection of...
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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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  • 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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    (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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    farming Fur farming Fur trade Insect farming Intensive animal farming Intensive pig farming Livestock Poultry farming Slaughterhouse Wildlife farming...
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    Pork (redirect from Pig meat)
    name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus). It is the second-most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BCE...
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  • and Songhua river valleys, supporting themselves by hunting, fishing, pig farming, and some migratory agriculture. Many "Yeren Jurchens", like the Nivkh...
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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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