In the News . . .

• Rosenblum, Jordan D. 2024. Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig. NY: NYU Press.
  
  
• Canada's "super pigs" threaten to invade U.S.: States take action -- AXIOS (23 November 2023)
  
  
• How Two Pig Farmers Are Winning People Over to Pork Now -- PORK (01 November 2023)
  
  
• China’s Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs -- The New York Times (08 February 2023)
  
  
• ‘Towns just turned to dust’: how factory hog farms help hollow out rural communities -- The Guardian (5 May 2022)
  
  
• Pigs to the Rescue: An Invasive Species Helped Save Australia’s Crocodiles -- The New York Times (15 August 2022)
  
  
• Cacio e pepe en vessie: A new (old) twist on cacio e pepe – BBCtravel (10 August 2022)
  
  
• Canada’s wild pigs threaten ‘absolute destruction’ if left unchecked -- TheGuardian (07 March 2022)
  
  
• Grunt of the litter: scientists use AI to decode pig calls -- TheGuardian (07 March 2022)
  
  
• McDonald's pig policy fight escalates with board nominations -- BBCnews (21 February 2022)
  
  
• Ellie the Pot-Bellied Pig: Emotional Support or Livestock? -- Farm Journal's Pork (18 February 2022)
  
  
• The evidence is all around us: life outside the single market is an utter disaster -- TheGuardian (17 February 2022)
  
  
• The Rampaging Pigs of the San Francisco Bay Area -- The New York Times (01 February 2022)
  
  
• Three ethical issues around pig heart transplants -- BBCnews (11 January 2022)
  
  
• Maryland doctors transplant pig’s heart into human patient in medical first -- TheGuardian (10 January 2022)
  
  
• How the turkey conquered Christmas [How a strange bird from Mexico became a Christmas staple] -- BBCFuture (16 December 2021)
  
  
• Inside the Indonesian cave where oldest animal art was found -- BBCnews (25 October 2021)
  
  
• The US has a silent pig pandemic on its doorstep once again -- TheGuardian (17 October 2021)
  
  
• Pigs at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport help to keep skies safe -- BBCnews (17 October 2021)
  
  
• ‘Toilet of Europe’: Spain’s pig farms blamed for mass fish die-offs -- TheGuardian (13 October 2021)
  
  
• ‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming -- TheGuardian (23 August 2021)
  
  
• Olympic Hopeful Blames Failed Drug Test on Pork Burrito; Pork Industry Sets the Record Straight -- AG WEB (22 June 2021)
  
  
• Spain's Iberian pork producers see red over traffic-light labelling -- The Guardian (09 February 2021)
  
  
• Pig Painting May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art Yet, Archaeologists Say -- The New York Times (13 January 2021)
  
  
• Here are the 10 Plant-Based Food Trends That Will Be Big in 2021 -- The Beet (31 December 2020)
  
  
• Spain’s pig farmers call for pork investment to save rural economy -- Financial Times (26 December 2020)
  
  
• U.S. Farmers Are Breeding Fewest Hogs in Almost Three Years -- Bloomberg (23 December 2020)
  
  
• One way to fight invasive species? Eat them -- National Geographic (23 December 2020)
  
  
• FDA approves new genetically modified pig for allergy-free medical and food products -- CNNHealth (14 December 2020)
  
  
• Why billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know) (13:10 ) -- Let's Cook History (26 October 2020)
  
  
• Happier Pigs and Tastier Pork: Recyclingrem Japanese Liquor Leftovers As Animal Feed -- SciTecDaily (21 July 2020)
  
  
• Persuading China to switch to 'fake' pork -- BBCnews (01 July 2020)
  
  
• ‘A different level of complexity’: Meat alternative start-up mimics fibrous texture of pork whole-muscle cuts -- FOODnavigator (07 May 2020)
  
  
• The Food Chain’s Weakest Link: Slaughterhouses -- The New York Times (18 April 2020)
  
  
• African swine fever outbreak reported in western Poland -- The Guardian (08 April 2020)
  
  
• CES 2020: 'Pork made from plants' launched by Impossible Foods -- BBCNews (07 January 2020)
  
  
• Fight to become Japan's gyoza capital gently simmers -- The Guardian (23 December 2019)
  
  
• ‘Not enough pork in the world’ to deal with China’s demand for meat -- The Guardian (23 November 2019)
  
  
• African swine fever: Australia expels Vietnamese woman over pork haul -- BBCNews (15 October 2019)
  
  
• China is rolling back tariffs on US pork and soybeans -- BBCNews (13 September 2019)
  
  
• Food after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future -- The Guardian (18 August 2019)
  
  
• How Many Hogs Can Be Slaughtered Per Hour? Pork Industry Wants More [currently there's a maximum of 1,106 hogs per hour] -- The New York Times (09 August 2019)
  
  
• What about the 30-50 feral hogs? Man's defense of assault weapons goes viral -- The Guardian (05 August 2019)
  
  
• Tainted Pork, Ill Consumers and an Investigation Thwarted -- The New York Times (04 August 2019)
  
  
• Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities -- The Guardian (30 July 2019))
  
  
• Lean meat: US pork prices rise as sweltering summer leads to skinny pigs -- The Guardian (27 July 2019)
  
  
• Planned wild boar cull in Poland angers conservationists -- The Guardian (29 January 2019)
  
  
• Brian Brazeal, & Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology (Producers), & Weaver, A. (Director). (2018). No season on boar. [Video/DVD] Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology. Retrieved from https://video-alexanderstreet-com.libpdb.d.umn.edu:2443/watch/no-season-on-boar
  
  
• Anger over pork sausages at Germany Islam event -- BBCNews (30 November 2018)
  
  
• Schorsch, Jonathan. The Food Movement, Culture and Religion: A Tale of Pigs, Christians, Jews and Politics. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  
  
• Southern Barbecue With a Fiery Dip and a Deep History -- The New York Times (23 October 2018)
  
  
• Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown -- The Guardian (10 October 2018)
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. 2018. Review of Weiss, Brad. Real pigs: shifting values in the field of local pork. xvii, 288 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. £20.99 (paper) in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 24, 630-631.
  
  
• Meat Labs Pursue a Once-Impossible Goal: Kosher Bacon -- The New York Times (30 September 2018)
  
  
• Lagoons of Pig Waste Are Overflowing After Florence. Yes, That’s as Nasty as It Sounds -- The New York Times (19 Septemer 2018)
  
  
• Fears for environment in Spain as pigs outnumber people -- The Guardian (19 August 2018)
  
  
• High-speed pig slaughter will be disastrous for everyone involved -- The Guardian (17 April 2018)
  
  
• Trade war with Mexico stokes fear among Minnesota pig farmers -- MPR News (07 June 2018)
  
  
• Underreporting of toxic waste at hog farms prompts inquiry -- The Guardian (06 June 2018)
  
  
• Yes, bacon really is killing us -- The Guardian (21 March 2018)
  
  
• 'Dirty meat': Shocking hygiene failings discovered in US pig and chicken plants -- The Guardian (21 February 2018)
  
  
• Venezuelans protest over pork shortages during Christmas -- BBCNews (28 December 2017)
  
  
• Pigs - The Domestication History of Sus scrofa -- ThoughtCo (22 November 2017)
  
  
• Know your pork: Comparing 2 very different pig farms -- MPRNews (20 November 2017)
  
  
• A New American Prosciutto -- The New York Times (02 October 21017)
  
  
• ‘CRISPR’ Bacon: Pigs could soon save millions more lives -- JoAnn Alumbaugh, Farm Journal's Pork (02 October 2017)
  
  
• Top 10 Pigs Facts to Share for Pork Month -- Sara Brown, -- Farm Journal's Pork (28 September 2017)
  
  
• How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape -- National Geographic (22 September 2017)
  
  
• Non-pork meals must be available for school lunch, rules French court -- The Guardian (28 August 2017)
  
  
• India swine flu death toll rises above 1,000 this year -- BBCNews (24 August 2017)
  
  
• Origin and dispersal of early domestic pigs in northern China -- Scientific Reports, Nature (10 August 2017)
  
  
• Vegan activists tearfully protest as pigs head to slaughter – in pictures -- TheGuardian (04 August 2017)
  
  
• Pigs Among First Domesticated Animals -- AgHires (04 August 2017)
  
  
• Hogs on road cause Texas rush-hour chaos -- BBCNews (30 June 2017)
  
  
• Swine intervention: California animal lovers call pig rescue a load of hogwash -- TheGuardian (16 June 2017)
  
  
• Review of Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork by Brad Weiss (Duke University Press, 2016) -- Neri de Kramer, FoodAnthropology (05 June 2017)
  
  
• Three New Food Realities Facing Farmers -- Farm Journal's Pork (24 May 2017)
  
  
• Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One announces new series -- BBCNews (19 May 2017)
  
  
• Kansas man jailed for killing and torturing son he fed to pigs -- BBCNews (09 May 2017)
  
  
• As hog feedlots grow, neighbors ask: What about our rights? -- Josephine Marcotty, StarTribune (17 April 2017)
  
  
• Changing Market Requires Changes In The Meat Case -- The Shelby Report (03 April 2017)
  
  
• Insights into early pig domestication provided by ancient DNA analysis -- Scientific Reports, US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (16 March 2017)
  
  
• Florida’s Invaders: The Wild Pig -- Lenny Flank, Hidden History (15 March 2017)
  
  
• Meet a Pig Farmer of Tomorrow: Madison Schafer -- RealPigFarming (13 March 2017)
  
  
• Why We Love—And Loathe—The Humble Pig -- Simon Worrall, National Geographic (06 March 2017)
  
  
• Animal Domestication -- Table of Dates and Places -- K. Kris Hirst, ThoughtCo (28 January 2017)
  
  
• Glen Taylor sees green in 'war on big food' -- MPRnews (17 October 2016)
  
  
• Throughout history, humans have preferred their pigs to be black, suggests study -- ScienceDaily (06 September 2016)
  
  
• Farmers feel thrown under the bus as Big Food changes -- MPRnews (29 February 2016)
  
  
• The Trouble with Iowa: Corn, corruption, and the presidential caucuses -- Richard Manning, Harper's Magazine (February 2016)
  
  
• Archaeologist 3D Scans World's Oldest Preserved Ham And Peanut -- Forbes (15 December 2015)
  
  
• Party Like It's 2500 B.C.: Feasts at Stonehenge Were Epic Barbecues -- NPR (09 December 2015)
  
  
• The culinary habits of the Stonehenge builders -- Phys.org (13 October 2015)
  
  
• Vietnam: Village agrees to tone down pig slaughter event -- BBCNews (16 October 2015)
  
  
• Recreated Pit Roast Offers a Taste of Stone Age Life -- LiveScience (02 September 2015)
  
  
  • In Photos: A Stone Age Barbecue Pit -- LiveScience (02 September 2015)
    
    
• The Taming of the Pig Took Some Wild Turns -- Science (31 August 2015)
  
  
• Ashland County moves toward moratorium on large animal farms amid concerns over hog proposal -- StarTribune (14 August 2015)
  
  
• Iron-Age Britons Engaged in Mysterious Pig Trotter Festivals -- New Scientist (10 August 2015)
  
  
• The molecular medley that gives bacon its rich flavor -- BBCFuture (30 July 2015)
  
  
• Which oils are best to cook with? -- BBCFuture (28 July 2015)
  
  
• Essig, Mark. Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig. NY: Basic Books, 2015.
  
  
• Estabrook, Barry. Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat. NY: W.W. Norton, 2015.
  
  
• Why The Pig Is The Most Loved And Most Loathed Animal On The Plate -- NPR (20 July 2015)
  
  
• Is GMO Pork the Future of Our Food? -- EcoWatch (01 July 2015)
  
  
• Prehistoric Pig Bones Show Selective Feasting Patterns -- Past Horizons (18 June 2015)
  
  
• The size of domestic animals has increased over time - Phys.org (19 May 2015)
  
  
• Prehistoric Pig Bones Show Selective Feasting Patterns -- Past Horizons (18 June 2015)
  
  
• “Globally unparalleled” evidence of prehistoric Welsh feasting practices unearthed by archaeologists -- Cardiff University (11 June 2015)
  
  
• Size Changes in Livestock: from Roman to Present Day -- Past Horizons (19 May 2015)
  
  
• People Ate Pork in the Middle East Until 1,000 B.C.—What Changed? -- Smithsonian (18 March 2015)
  
  
• Water, air quality concerns heighten conflict with pig farms -- MPRNews (16 February 2015)
  
  
• Ancient Romans Ate Meals Most Americans Would Recognize -- Science 2.0 (06 February 2015)
  
  
• Dude, Where’s My Carnitas? Why Chipotle Pulled the Plug on Pork -- Josh Scherer, takepart (14 January 2015)
  
  
• 10 Wonderful Ways to Eat Pigs' Feet -- John Farrier, Neatorama (08 October 2013)
  
  
• 5 Reasons the Tyson-Hillshire Buyout is a Big [Meat] Deal -- Siena Chrisman, Civil Eats (02 September 2014)
  
  
• As Americans pig out, bacon sees sizzling price hikes -- Brianna Sacks, Los Angeles Times (22 August 2014)
  
  
• Smithfield Foods' Profit Surges on Higher Hog Prices -- Joshua Jamerson, Wall Street Journal (11 August 2014)
  
  
• Meat’s large water footprint: why raising livestock and poultry for meat is so resource-intensive -- FoodTank (December 2013)
  
  
• Ancient Pig-Shaped Baby Bottle Found -- Discovery News (13 December 2013)
  
  
• Israeli wild boars descendants of pigs brought by Philistines -- Past Horizons (04 November 2013)
  
  
• European Hunter-Gatherers Owned Domesticated Pigs -- Past Horizons (27 August 2013)
  
  
• Stone Age Hunters Brought Home the Bacon -- Discovery News (27 August 2013)
  
  
• European Hunter-Gatherers Had Domesticated Pigs Earlier Than Thought -- National Geographic News (27 August 2013)
  
  
• China's Shuanghui to buy US pork producer for $4.7bn -- BBCNews (30 May 2013)
  
  
• Why Chinese Purchase Of Smithfield Could Be Game Changer For Pork Trade -- Simon Montlake, Forbes (30 May 2013)
  
  
• China-US pork deal 'significant'-- BBCNews (30 May 2013)
  
  
• 'Illegal' bacon should be in a supermarket near you by 2013 -- The Telegraph (20 December 2012)
  
  
• Where do milk, eggs and bacon come from? One in three youths don't know -- The Telegraph (14 June 2012)
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Why the character for 'family' has a pig inside a house -- ChinaDaily (07 October 2011)
  
  
• Ten of the best pigs in literature -- TheGuardian (20 August 2010)
  
  
• Colourful pigs evolved through farming, not nature -- New Scientist (16 January 2009)
  
  

• [video] American Meat
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• Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light On Colonization Of Europe By Early Farmers -- ScienceDaily (4 September 2009)
  
  
• Brown, Lester R. Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. NY: W.W. Norton, 2012.
  
  
• Carlisle, Liz, and Niki Mazaroli. (30 March 2023). “The Return of Silvopasture.” Aeon. Accessed April 23, 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/heres-to-reviving-the-ancient-practice-of-silvopasture.
  
  
• Chinese Pigs 'Direct Descendants' of First Domesticated Breeds -- ScienceDaily (20 March 2010)
  
  
• Colourful pigs evolved through farming, not nature -- New Scientist (16 January 2009)
  
  
• Essig, Mark. Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig. NY: Basic Books, 2015.
  
  
• Grey, Mark A. Immigrants, Migration, and Worker Turnover at the Hog Pride Pork Packing Plant. Human Organization 58(1): 16-27, 1999.
  
  
• Hedgepeth, William. The Hog Book. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
  
  
• Hogs -- Daniel W. Gade, Cambridge World HIstory of Food
  
  
• Horwitz, Richard P. Hog Ties: What Pigs Tell Us About America. NY: St. Martin's, 1998.
  
  
• Kaminsky, Peter. Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and Some Graet Ways to Cook Them. NY: Hyperion, 2005.
  
  
• Kirby, David. Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. NY: St. Martin's, 2010.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Eat Your Heart Out: Why the Food Business is Bad for the Planet and Your Health. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
  
  
• Lawrence, Felicity. Not on the Label: What Really Goes into The Food on Your Plate, Revised Edition. London: Penguin Books, 2013.
  
  
• Leonard, Christopher. The Meat Racket: The Scret Takeover of America's Food Business. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
  
  
• McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984.
  
  
• Mayer, John J., and I. Lehr Brisbon, Jr. Wild Pigs in the United States: Their History, Comparative Morphoogy, and Current Status. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
  
  
• Mizelle, Brett. Pig. London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
  
  
• Montgomery, Sy. The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood. NY: Random House, 2006.
  
  
• Moor, Stuart. American Meat (Dark Future). Black Flame, 2005
  
  
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• National Pig Association: The Voice of the British Pig Industry
  
  
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• National Pig Day: 01 March in the United States -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Ogle, Maureen. In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
  
  
• PigWorld: The Voice of the British Pig Industry
  
  
• Rogers Katharine M. Pork: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.
  
  
• Roufs, Timothy G. 2018. Review of Weiss, Brad. Real pigs: shifting values in the field of local pork. xvii, 288 pp., maps, illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. £20.99 (paper) in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 24, 630-631.
  
  
• Salatin, Joel. The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs. NY: Faith Works, 2016.
  

• Searl, Duncan. Pigs. NY: Bearport, 2006.
  
  
• Smart Meat and Dairy Guide (PDF) -- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  
  
• Steingarten, Jeffrey. It Must've Been Somethin I Ate. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
  
  
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American Cuts of Pork

British Cuts of Pork

Porcellino (Museo Bardini), ca., 1634
Pietro Tacca (1577—1640)
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