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I’m sure many of us remember hearing at one time or another that a goat will eat just about anything. A fellow I once knew told me you can never trust a goat around farm equipment because they will eat ...

Anyone who has grown up in farm country is probably familiar with the fact that pigs can be stinky. In fact, they can stink way worse than the neighborhood kid you knew growing up that never took a bath or ...

“Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food,” said Hippocrates. But aren’t we interpreting it the wrong way when we put antibiotics in the animals we rear for food? But that’s exactly what we have been doing for ...

Editor’s note: This is part 2 in a 3-part series by the author on dietary laws in the Bible. The views are those of the author. Read part 1 here. God’s dietary laws prohibit eating carnivorous animals. Just as God ...

A Danish pig farmer is blaming genetically-modified (GMO) ingredients in feed for terrible deformities in his hogs and piglets. Ib Pedersen, the farmer, is also convinced that GMO feed caused serious health problems and still births in some of his ...

Raising pigs is always an adventure, but raising heritage pigs can be an epic adventure on the scale of Homer’s Odyssey. The trouble is, despite their lack of table manners and their slovenly deportment, pigs are just too darn smart! ...

“Have you ever raised a pig?” the old man asked me. “Why yes I have,” I said with a smile. Like most people who listen to my rants, he didn’t believe me, but I was telling the truth… this time. ...

August 24, 2012 Pigs are a naturally clean animal that will do their business in one corner of a bigger space. No smell. No stink. Brian says the only way pigs will stink is if you let them fester in ...

NaturalNews has confirmed that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has carried out two armed raids on pig farmers in Kalkaska and Cheboygan counties. The raids were carried out by ten armed officers in six vehicles against law-abiding farmers on ...

MICHIGAN – The Department of Natural Resources of the state of Michigan is about to impose on farmers the Invasive Species Act, issued in December 2010. That means by April 1, farmers must destroy heritage, or “wild”, breeds of swine ...