Conscious Consumption

Behind rural noir literary genre.

The National Pork Board issued a statement on Tuesday calling Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus its “No. 1 priority” and announcing the commitment of more than $1 million to research the virus and combat its spread.

One of Japan’s top stem cell scientists is on his way to California to use pigs as incubators for human organs. Is the U.S. ready?

Pig-like humans are stereotypically fat, ugly, lazy, disgusting, sexist, selfish people who take more than their fair share. They are road hogs, ball hogs, glory hogs and resource hogs. Why is the word pig so pejorative?

The story behind the most famous pig of all.

A veterinary student in Scotland learns what it’s like to catch pig semen in a Thermos.

What happens when pigs figure out how to get access to booze? Nothing pretty.

Our cultural obsession with bacon seems to have cooled (no more bacon sundaes, for instance) but we’re still eating more of it than ever.

The winding and weird relationship between pigs and humans.