| September 23, 2008 | - A large pig, the size of a “Shetland pony,” held an Australian woman hostage in her home.
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BBC
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| December 4, 2007 | - Eleven slaughterhouse employees in Austin, Minnesota, were diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a rare neurological disorder that they appear to have contracted as part of their work airblasting brain tissue from pig heads in order to get at the meat.
| Source 1:
WP
Source 2:
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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| November 29, 2006 | - A herd of domesticated pigs attacked and ate a three-year-old boy in Delhi, India.
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BBC
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| October 28, 2006 | -
Hunters in west Texas were stalking feral pigs.
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New York Times
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| April 28, 2006 | -
Scientists in Illinois said that they had refined a process that transforms pig manure into crude oil, and suggested that up to 3.6 gallons of crude oil could be generated daily per pig.
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Belleville News Democrat
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| March 9, 2006 | - The Sheaf, a University of Saskatchewan campus newspaper, was criticized for publishing a cartoon showing Jesus Christ
fellating a talking pig.
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The Gateway
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| March 8, 2006 | - A five-year study into alternative methods of managing hog waste produced no feasible alternative to the current practice of filling massive lagoons with excrement.
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WRAL.com
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| March 8, 2006 | - In rural Nepal fathers were being paid in piglets if they agreed not to sell their daughters into servitude.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| March 7, 2006 | - A farmer in Germany said that he got the idea of feeding a friend's corpse to pigs from a lecture about Buddhism.
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MSNBC
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| February 27, 2006 | - In France far-right groups were criticized for serving pork soup to the poor with the intent of discriminating against observant Muslims and Jews. "We are all pig eaters!" chanted a crowd of soup activists. "We are all pig eaters!"
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The New York Times
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| February 23, 2006 | - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals criticized a teacher in Rosamond, California, for castrating a live pig in front of a high school group; a school superintendent countered that animal castration is an important skill for students to learn.
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LA Daily News
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| February 22, 2006 | - A Bavarian village was flooded with over a foot of pig
manure.
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BBC News
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| February 11, 2006 | -
Vietnam was refusing to allow people to register website names that contained the word "buoi," which, depending on tonal intonation, could mean either "penis" or "grapefruit," or the word "lon," which could mean either "vagina" or "pig."
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| January 28, 2006 | -
Hawaiians were attempting to have the humuhumunukunukuapuaa (HOO-moo-HOO-moo- NOO-koo-NOO-koo- AH-poo-AH-ah) appointed as Hawaii's state fish on a permanent basis after its five-year term expired. "It kind of looks like a pig and it squawks and everything," said a humuhumunukunukuapuaa advocate.
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ABC News
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| January 13, 2006 | - Scientists in Taiwan bred three glowing pigs.
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 18, 2005 | -
China planned to launch forty grams of pig
semen into space.
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News in Science
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| March 15, 2005 | -
Researchers found that keeping pigs cool helps them grow fatter.
| Source:
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
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| September 1, 2004 | - A man was arrested in West Monroe, Louisiana, for committing a crime against nature with his sister's 125-pound Vietnamese potbelly pig.
| Source:
The News Star
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| July 10, 2004 | - Federal health officials were thinking about banning the practice of feeding pork, chicken, and other animal parts to cattle; the pigs and chickens eat rendered cattle and thus could transmit mad cow disease prions. There was apparently no plan to stop feeding cattle huge quantities of cattle blood, an obvious vector for the disease, and cattle will continue to enjoy the feathers and excrement of 8.5 billion chickens.
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New York Times
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| July 9, 2004 | - The mayor of Nyahururu, Kenya, ordered the slaughter of 500 pigs because they were mating with stray dogs.
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Reuters
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| February 27, 2004 | - The Food and Drug Administration banned the feeding of cattle blood to calves. Dinner scraps from restaurants, known as "plate waste," will no longer be fed to cattle either, though rendered cows will still be fed to pigs and chickens, and vice versa.
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New York Times
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| February 9, 2004 | - Foot and mouth disease was killing cattle and pigs in Vietnam.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 7, 2004 | -
Bird flu jumped the species barrier to pigs.
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Independent
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| January 7, 2004 | - A wild boar invaded a Berlin apartment and bit the owner on the leg.
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New York Times
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| December 31, 2003 | - In response to the mad-cow crisis, the United States Department of Agriculture banned the human consumption of cow brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes, and nerve tissue from cows older than 30 months. Downer cows may no longer be eaten by humans, though they will be boiled down and fed to chickens and pigs, and younger cow brains may still be eaten.
| Source:
Forbes, New York Times
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| November 6, 2003 | -
Yukos Oil, the Russian company whose chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was arrested last month, was being investigated for allegedly mistreating pigs and permitting rabbit "couplings [to] take place unsystematically."
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 22, 2003 | - Eight hundred piglets blocked traffic for several hours on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 11, 2003 | -
A school in England banned stories about pigs in the mistaken belief that talking about pigs is offensive to Muslims.
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| December 10, 2002 | -
The federal government fined ProdiGene for failing to take proper steps to prevent its genetically altered corn, which produces a protein used in making a vaccine to prevent diarrhea in pigs, from contaminating the nation's food supply.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
Scientists in Boston grew pigs' teeth in the belly of a rat.
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| August 20, 2002 | -
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania successfully grew pig, mice, and goat testicles on the backs of laboratory mice; one researcher said that the testes “produced as much sperm, gram for gram, as testes in the donor species.” Larry Rivers died.
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| August 13, 2002 | -
A Canadian researcher named Gurunathan Lakshman said that he had a plan to eliminate the stink from pig feces, which will make hog farming less objectionable to neighbors.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Schippers, a Belgian company, announced that it had created the MS Reflexator, a vibrating device that sexually stimulates a pig during artificial insemination.
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| January 29, 2002 | -
Japanese scientists claimed they had created a pig that carries spinach genes, which results in leaner pork but not green ham.
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| July 31, 2001 | - Three genetically modified pigs stolen from a U.S. university were made into sausage by an unsuspecting butcher.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Florida's
supreme court was considering a constitutional amendment that would enshrine the right of pigs to spacious quarters while pregnant.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Singapore sentenced a Malaysian truck driver to a year in jail for smuggling 11,000 pounds of pig intestines into the city state.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Epidemiologists think the current hoof-and-mouth epidemic in England may have started with contaminated swill fed to pigs in Heddon-on-the-Wall; leftover airline food from a country affected by the disease might have been in the swill.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Britain banned all exports of live animals, milk, and meat, after foot and mouth disease was discovered among some pigs and cattle; Britons were asked to stay away from the countryside; Ireland stationed extra troops along its border to keep out wayward British cows.
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| 0, 2000 | -
Swine flu, renamed under pork-lobby pressure to “influenza A (H1N1) virus, human,” and referred to as “killer Mexican flu” by anti-immigration activists, had infected 985 people, or 0.0000145 percent of the world's population. Twenty countries reported infections; one death from the flu was confirmed in the United States; and 25 people had died in Mexico, where a cute five-year-old boy named Edgar Hernandez was presented to the media as “patient zero.”
| Source 1:
SFGate.com
Source 2:
USA Today
Source 3:
The World Health Organization
Source 4:
The Guardian
Source 5:
The New York Daily News
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Britain approved rules allowing researchers to clone human embryos; German officials called such practices “cannibalism.” Cheap Chinese
pigskin miniskirts were appearing in malls all over America.
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| December 5, 2000 | - America's Federal Aviation Administration ruled that US Airways was not wrong to allow a pig to fly first class even though the pig ran amok.
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| October 24, 2000 | - Amnon Chemouil was convicted in a French court of raping an eleven-year-old girl in Thailand while on a “sex holiday.” Greenpeace claimed that it had caused two biotech companies to withdraw plans to patent embryos for a human-pig hybrid; both companies denied making “mixed species embryos,” though one did admit to introducing a human nucleus into a pig cell.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Researchers discovered that the Nipah virus, which killed 100 people last year in Singapore, originally came from fruit bats; the virus, a cousin to Ebola and HIV, is also carried by pigs, a million of which were destroyed last year.
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| August 22, 2000 | - After an outbreak of swine fever in Britain, the United States and other countries banned the importation of porcine semen and other pork products; a National Pig Association spokesman said that pig farmers were “at their wits' end.”
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