Pigs’ cheeks are fairly hard to find, although some butchers will prepare them for you (you may need to order them in advance).

While most people refer to all four of the pig's limbs as the feet (or trotters), Chinese butchers call the front legs (which are larger, meatier and more expensive) the "hands" and the back legs ...

“Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses ...

Peppa Pig is a lovable but slightly bossy five-year-old pig. In this series, Peppa and her family have new exciting adventures travelling far and wide and staying closer to home to visit new places we ...

A pair of escaped pigs managed to duck and dodge police in West Kelowna, B.C., in front of a crowd of cheering schoolchildren Wednesday. The chase unfolded outside Mar Jok Elementary on Wednesday ...

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New research suggests that pigs may function as a transmission vehicle for a strain of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) common in rats that has recently been found to infect humans. New research ...

Such “pig butchering” operations have largely been concentrated in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, typically rooted in Chinese organized crime groups exploiting instability and poor governance in ...

The first pig to human heart transplant was carried out in Baltimore A US man has become the world's first person to get a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. 57-year-old David ...

Victims caught up in romance scams are now likened to pigs being fattened for slaughter, due to clever social engineering carried out by fraudsters. Rip Off Britain has heard from viewers who met ...

The first organs taken from genetically engineered pigs have been put into people and the recipient of the first pig heart managed to survive for two months. So how close are we to using pigs for ...