According to Wired Magazine, “around 23% of workers in the meatpacking industry are undocumented.” Comments from packers such as Christensen Farms (owner of two of the largest pork processing plants ...

CLIVE –The 2025 Iowa Pork Congress, North America’s largest winter swine trade show, takes place on Jan. 22 and 23 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. It will be the 52nd annual event, with ...

We eat pork.” “So we looked at each other and said, ‘Hey, someone should do this,’” Castellanos said. “The rest is history.” Castellanos’ two kids, Rico and Alessandra, were in charge of picking out ...

Most air passengers rarely think about what’s stored in the cargo hold below, but passengers on a recent KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight were in for a surprise when the stench from live pigs ...

Pigs pose a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their proximity to humans, as per a new study. Now, scientists are warning that domestic cats ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

When pigs fly, it gets really smelly. A flight headed to Mexico went a little “hog wild” when the pilot decided to make an unplanned landing due to an “obnoxious smell” coming from the ...

Experts have long regarded pigs as one of the greatest zoonotic threats to public health because their cells allow viruses to mix and mutate, creating new strains capable of causing human pandemics.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, after eight years on dialysis ...

2024 was a big year for cultivated meat. We saw the first application for regulatory approval in Europe, an actual regulatory approval for cultivated beef in Israel, the announcement of a regulatory ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. AP spoke with three people closely watching pig kidney development, including two who’ve asked about ...