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Economic Crisis, the "PIGS" and the European "Animal Farm"

Panagiotis Roilos | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Rene Girard, Greece, Europe Debt Crisis, Pigs, European Economic Crisis, Italy, Spain, Portugal, World News

According to René Girard, in periods of collective crisis the phenomenon of scapegoating flourishes. Today, the notorious "PIGS" (Portugal, Ireland or Italy, Greece, Spain), have become those animalized, "criminal" scapegoats.

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Spain Celebrates Protest With Protests

AP | ALAN CLENDENNING | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, Unemployment, Greece, Pigs, Protests, Ireland, Spain, Ana Pancorvo, Puerta De Sol, Eurasia Group, Portugal, Business News

MADRID — At least 100,000 Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned o...

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Pig Poo Power The Answer To China's Porky Poser?

Reuters | Pauline Askin | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Energy, Video, Pig Poo Power, Animals in the News, Weird Science, Pigs, Weird Australia, Reuters, Ravi Naidu, Green Energy, Weird UK, Weird China, Weird News News

By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) - Seven hundred million pigs produce a lot of poo. China's love of pork presents a mou...

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Burger King Leads the Charge for Better Animal Welfare

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Hsus, Food, Farm Animals, Chickens, Battery Cages, Pigs, Gestation Crates, Burger King, Impact News

According to its new policy, BK will only do business with pork suppliers that have detailed plans to end their use of gestation crates.

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Hunter Thinks Girlfriend Is Hog, Shoots Her

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, Hunter Shoots Girlfriend, Animals in the News, Lisa Simmons, Pigs, Hogs, Steven Egan, Hog Hunter, Hunter Thinks Girlfriend Is Hog, Weird News News

A Florida hunter accidentally shot his girlfriend thinking that she was his target -- a wild hog. Cops said that Brandon man Steven Egan, 52, was h...

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This Is A Lot More Expensive This Year

AP | JOSH FUNK | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Easter, Price of Ham, Easter Food, Easter 2012, Ham, Pigs, Spring, Pork, Food Prices, Ham Prices, Money News

OMAHA, Neb. — Ham will be the centerpiece of many Easter dinners this weekend, but the cost of that traditional main dish may make it harder for...

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Chipotle's on the Farm

Nick Wiseman | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Mcdonalds, Bev Eggleston, Chipotle, Farm to Table, Pigs, EcoFriendly Foods, Local Food Movement, Eating Locally, Local Farmers, DC News

I got an elated call from Bev Eggleston last spring. The renowned Virginia pig farmer had really big news. The executive team from Chipotle was headed to his farm to source pigs for their growing burrito empire.

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No More Gestation Crates, Says McDonald's

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Restaurant, Animal Welfare, Pigs, Hsus, McDonald's, Food, Farm Animals, Animals, Gestation Crates, Food News

It's the biggest and perhaps best-known restaurant chain in the world. And today, in a joint statement with The Humane Society of the United States, i...

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Going Hog Wild: Weaning Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Out Of Pork

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Staph Infection, Organic Food, Livestock, Agriculture, Superbugs, Mrsa, Pigs, Cafo, Antibiotics, Pork, Green News

After nearly succumbing to an antibiotic-resistant infection contracted from one of his hogs, Russ Kremer went cold turkey. He exterminated his diseas...

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Villagers Chop Living Pig In Half As Part Of Festival Celebration (GRAPHIC)

Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Video, Doan Thuong, Living Pig Chopped, Vietnam Tradition, Animal Rights, Nem Thuong, Pigs, Vietnam Live Pig Chopped in Half, Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam Festival, World News

Nem Thuong's annual pig-chopping festival is, as one might imagine, a very bloody affair. WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE BELOW Each year, on the sixth...

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PHOTO: Two-Snouted Cyclops Pig

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Two-Snouted Pig, Two-Snouted Cyclops Pig, Video, Two-Headed Animals, Strange Animals, Two-Faced Animals, Pigs, Cyclops Animals, Weird-Animals, Cyclops Pig, Animal Deformities, Green News

Although he may not look like it, the animal pictured below is actually a pig. The animal, which was born at a farm owned by Xiao Jintu in China's...

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The World's Best Ham: It May Be $150/lb But It May Be Worth It

Rozanne Gold | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: 5J Cinco Jotas, Ham, Food, Pigs, Food News, Spain, Iberico, Despana, Jabugo, Jabugo Ham, Spanish Ham, Iberico Ham, Food News

More than 20 years ago, I had one of those taste epiphanies, the Proustian kind, where, embedded in your brain is a memory, an aroma, a texture and a story.

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Largest Pork Producer To Halt Cruel Practice

AP | By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Virginia, Smithfield Farms, Law, Humane Society of the United States, Animal Cruelty, Video, Pig Gestation Crates, Lawsuits, Pigs, Pork, Food News

RICHMOND, Va. -- Smithfield Foods Inc., the world's largest pork producer, said Thursday it plans to end the practice of keeping pregnant hogs at the ...

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"Ideal" Conditions or a Big McFib?

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Hsus, Smithfield, McDonald's, Farm Animals, Complaint, Mcrib, Animals, Pigs, Food News

If I told you that pigs confined in gestation crates -- cages barely larger than the animals' bodies, in which they don't have enough space even to turn around -- were living in "ideal" conditions where their "every need is met," you'd probably have a quarrel with that.

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EU Approves Latest Greece Debt Bailout

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Video, Euro Zone Finance Ministers, Bailout, International Monetary Fund, Reuters, Pigs, Imf, Eu, Stimulus, Austerity, Business News

BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund have approved the payment of the next tranche of financial support to G...

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Babe, Lettuce, and Tomato: You Want a What?

Marc Bekoff | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Veganism, Animal Welfare, Animals, Pigs, Denver News

Few people really know about the horrific treatment of the food they casually put in their mouth. I'm sure if you asked a youngster if they'd like a Babe, lettuce, and tomato sandwich it would stimulate a lot of discussion.

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No Justice for Animals

Mikko Alanne | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Agribusiness, Finland, Animal Rights, Undercover Investigation, Justice for Animals, Animal Cruelty, Pigs, Saila Kivelä, Karry Hedberg, Green News

Instead of charging a single pig factory farmer with cruelty to animals, Finnish authorities are prosecuting the two activists who made the undercover videos, which were exposed to the public.

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Farm Dog Nurses Piglets

AP | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Dog Nurses Piglets, Yeti, Piglets, Pigs, Farm Dog Yeti Nurses Piglets, Dog Suckles Piglets, Dog, Farm Dog Nurses Piglets, Animals in the News, Weird Cuba, Cuba, Farm Dog Suckles Piglets, Weird News News

CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Yeti the dog already had a litter of pups to care for when the piglets adopted her as a second mom. Ever since then, the Cuban fa...

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Pigs Swarm Woman's Car

AP | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Pigs Swarm Car, Weird Germany, Germany, Pigs Attack Car, Pigs, Weird Pigs, Pigs Swarm Woman, Wanderup, Weird News News

BERLIN -- Police in northern Germany say they rescued a woman and her 2-year-old child whose car was swarmed – by a herd of pigs. Police said t...

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Roseanne's Nuts Is Downright Delicious

Greg Archer | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Farming, Comedians, Lifetime, Pigs, Roseanne Barr, Hawaii, Macadamia-Nuts, Comedy, Hollywood, Entertainment News

If anybody can (and could and should) get away with spawning another reality outing, it's Roseanne Barr. Roseanne's Nut chronicles her never-boring life running a 40-acre macadamia nut farm on the Big Island.

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New Undercover Footage Of Gruesome Pig Abuse

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Undercover Farm Video Ban Petition, Video, Animal Abuse, Pigs, Factory Farms, Factory Farms Filming, Undercover Farm Video Ban, Iowa Select Video, Pork, Meat, Iowa Select Farms, Mercy for Animals, Iowa Select Farms Video, Select Farms, Iowa Select Farms Animal Abuse, Iowa Pig Farm Costco Video, Iowa Select Farms Pig Abuse, Iowa Pig Farm, Mercy for Animals-Iowa Select Farms, Iowa Pig Farm Abuse, Iowa Select, Pig Abuse, Iowa Animal Rights Find Abuse, Animal Abuse at an Iowa Select Farms, Costco, Huffington Post Pigs, Food News

Animal rights group Mercy For Animals has released ghastly undercover footage of pig abuse at Iowa Select, an industrial farm that supplies pork to Kr...

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Behind The Scenes Of The Spam Factory

Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Hormel, Quality Pork Processors, Pigs, Spam Factory Report, Spam, Pig Brains, What's in Spam, Pig, Spam Factory, Food News

Ted Genoways of Mother Jones recently scribed a behemoth piece on some shady occurrences at Quality Pork Processors Inc., better known as the processi...

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PIGS Don't Get to Burn Oil

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Oil, U.S. Economy, Recession, China, Treasury Department, Yuan, Opec, Economy, Pigs, Oil Dependence, Business News

China doesn't have to build a blue water navy or engage in an arms race to take a big slice of the U.S.'s energy pie. All it has to do is stop showing up at the U.S. Treasury auction.

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The Good Slaughter: A Proud Meat Cutter Shows His Processing Floor

Liza de Guia | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Larry Althiser, Food Movement, Food Videos, Sustainable Food, Ny, Butchering, Beef, Agriculture, Pigs, Food Curated, Sustainable Agriculture, Lamb, Liza deGuia, Gothamist, Meat Processing, Butchers, Good Food, Inspiring, Local Farmers, Pork, Slaughter Video, Farming, Larry's Custom Meats, Dairy Farms, Skeeternyc, Featured, Grass-Fed Movement, Cattle, Pasture-Raised, Slaughterhouse, Ominvore's Dilemma, Food, Grassfed, Cade, News, Meat, Food News

"My hope is that my children will have the same passion for this as I do..." Meet Larry Althiser, the owner and head meat cutter for Larry's Custom M...

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Building Artisan Slaughterhouses to Feed the Demand for Grass-fed Meat (Part 1)

Liza de Guia | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Farmer's Markets, Larry Althiser, Food Movement, Food Videos, Ny, Butchering, Beef, Agriculture, Pigs, Food Curated, Sustainable Agriculture, Lamb, Liza deGuia, Gothamist, Meat Processing, Butchers, Good Food, Local Farmers, Pork, Slaughter Video, Farming, Larry's Custom Meats, Dairy Farms, Skeeternyc, Featured, Grass-Fed Movement, Cattle, Pasture-Raised, Slaughterhouse, Ominvore's Dilemma, Environment, Food, Grassfed, News, Meat, Cade, Food News

Meet Chris Harmon, the Executive Director of CADE, The Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship in New York State. CADE is a non-profit ...

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