Industrial pig production was once seen as bad for the environment. But now, science has brought clever solutions. The sustainable livestock movement is already making a difference, working quietly to ...

After a major outbreak of African swine fever in 2018, China massively industrialized its pig farming sector to ensure food ...

Well, wow. National legislators stand up to oppose the use of tax revenues to subsidize large-scale confinement pig farms out of concern for food safety and antibiotic resistance, declaring that they ...

Tiffany LaRue, 17, had not been lucky with her pigs this year. One had its placenta detach, killing the embryos. Another was supposed to have been pregnant when she bought her, but wasn't. Another, ...

DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, suggests that multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Many small businesses and smallholders are losing income by selling their output based on estimates of the weight, but a new measuring system in western Kenya has found farmers losing as much as ...

The spread of the deadly mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is being accelerated by industrialised pig farming and climate change, according to a lobby group of small-scale farmers.