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Heritage Breed Pigs: Why Raising Rare Breeds Matters for Biodiversity

In the wake of World War II, the rise of industrial agriculture fundamentally changed the world of meat production. Large-scale operations prioritized a few specialized pig breeds, optimized for ...
Pig World

Robustness at the core of a balanced breeding programme

TN70: A hybrid based on Norsvin Landrace (L-line) and Topigs Large White (Z-line) genetics, it is bred for high lifetime ...
New York Post

German researchers to start breeding pigs for human heart transplants

MUNICH, Feb. 3 – German scientists plan to clone and then breed this year genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors for humans, based on a simpler version of a U.S.-engineered animal used ...
Pig World

A focus on litter weight gain to help drive performance

DanBred delivers genetics worldwide with the purpose of ‘producing more pork for less cost’. It focuses on targeted breeding, ...
WGAL

Meishan pigs show for first time at Lebanon Area Fair

BREEDING AND SHOWING THESE HOGS. ARE YOU CUTE? YEAH. YOU’RE CUTE. DOROTHY AND ELPHABA ARE NOT ONLY CUTE, BUT A RARE BREED IN NORTH AMERICA. THEY ARE MASON PIGS IMPORTED FROM CHINA WITH A NAME THAT ...
Yahoo

Peru celebrates 2 decades of a fast-growing breed of guinea pigs eaten as a delicacy

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru on Thursday celebrated two decades since the creation of a genetically modified breed of guinea pig, a rodent whose meat has formed a part of the diet of people in the Andean ...