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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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    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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    commenced factory farming of beef and dairy cattle and domestic pigs. From its American and West European heartland, intensive animal farming became globalized...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    pig. Hampshire, National Swine Registry, retrieved December 19, 2011 Hampshire, Oklahoma State University, retrieved December 19, 2011 "Pig Farming"...
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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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  • Feed ratio (category Pig farming)
    the cost of food and the price of the final product. For example, in pig farming, the hog/corn ratio is the number of bushels of corn equal in value to...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Pork (redirect from Pig meat)
    culinary name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BCE...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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 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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  • Smithfield Foods (category Pig farming)
    Guardian. Lucas, Caroline (April 28, 2009). "Swine flu: is intensive pig farming to blame?", The Guardian. Polansek, Tom (November 5, 2019). "At Smithfield...
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  • environoego.com, accessed 17 May 2022 Pig Business farmsnotfactories.org, accessed 17 May 2022 "Documentary on intensive pig farming faces legal threat". The Guardian...
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  • some of its drinking water. The pigs were dumped by farmers in neighbouring Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, a major pig farming area that is upstream of Shanghai...
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