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 ...

So why, then, are Jews so obsessed with it? For nearly all of Jewish history, pigs have been inescapable. During eras of Roman rule, rulers would challenge Jews to eat pork to test their loyalties ...

Our trip east took us to Materra, but the surprises didn't stop there. Meet the Black Pig Restaurant, an ode to the cuisine ...

If you’ve been on Twitter/X over the weekend, you may have seen a strange sight: a shirt of a smiling, overweight pig enjoying a sauna session. No, this wasn’t a hallucination, it was the ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the H5N1 virus in swine in the United States, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday.

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 ...

As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a comprehensive report this ...

Some berries offer a harvest after only a year or two. Fresh, fragrant and delicious, there are many reasons to cultivate ...

Some of the best-known blueberry recipes come from the US and include blueberry pie, muffins, cheesecake and pancakes. Blueberries release lots of juice when cooked, which makes them a versatile ...

The first organs taken from genetically engineered pigs have been put into people and the recipient of the first pig heart managed to survive for two months. So how close are we to using pigs for ...

Reels of people frolicking with pigs on a beach in the Caribbean have more than likely surfaced on your TikTok and Instagram feeds at one point or another. After all, millions of people partake in ...

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 ...