“Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal. And vagrancy statutes made it a crime to be unemployed. Many misdemeanors or trivial offenses ...

The pig is usually food for people, Feng says, but “at least in my family, I hope it can live happily.” (Pet pigs can communicate with humans—especially when food is involved.) Seven months ...

One member of her farm family is a potbelly pig named Possum, whom she took in as a runt "falling way behind in growth," she told Newsweek. After Possum and his sibling, Wilby, gained some ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the intersection of 4chan, Reddit, and the real world. “The illustrations freaked people out,” he said. "Some of the ...

Victims caught up in romance scams are now likened to pigs being fattened for slaughter, due to clever social engineering carried out by fraudsters. Rip Off Britain has heard from viewers who met ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity. In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher ...

While most people refer to all four of the pig's limbs as the feet (or trotters), Chinese butchers call the front legs (which are larger, meatier and more expensive) the "hands" and the back legs ...

Peppa Pig is a lovable but slightly bossy five-year-old pig. In this series, Peppa and her family have new exciting adventures travelling far and wide and staying closer to home to visit new places we ...

It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video chats. Two months of ...

Your support makes all the difference. Federal officials announced Wednesday that the H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in a pig for the first time in the US. The pig was found on a backyard farm ...

Rosenblum’s new book, “Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig.” The “consumer” of course is the Jew, and those “sensitivities” are the result of a history that turned ...