RSPCA Think Pig Campaign and Game

The RSPCA are raising awareness of pig welfare issues and trying to educate people about the different labels on pork products and what they mean for pigs. A new Facebook word game  incorporates facts about...

Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel Car Accident News Needs a Break.

Sports networks around the world were filled with news of a car accident that left golfing great Tiger Woods with injuries just off his driveway in Orlando, Fla.  Tiger was rescued by his wife, reportedly...

H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Patented by Medimmune Back in 2008

H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Patented by Medimmune Back in 2008New York : According to Dr T Ott the Swine Flu patent is owned by none other than Medimmune who stands to profit around $151 million dollars from US...

Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear

At first the only pig in Afthanistan did not make sense. Later the picture revealed that this pig is the only non-human infidel in Afghanistan - now under house-arrest. Usually "pig and Afghanistan" brings...

70 ill in China after eating tainted pig organs

After death in coal mine there is another bad news from China. Eating tainted pig organs proved costly and at least 70 people in Southern China fell sick. " At least 70 people in Guangdong province have suffered food poisoning over the past three days after eating pig organs...

Pork adverts banned

A major advertising campaign for British pork has been banned from further use for misleading the public with claims of ‘very high welfare’ following a complaint made by Compassion in World Farming. The Pigs...

Kate Moss celebrates birthday with dead animals

Kate Moss hit 35 with a star studded house party at her London home. The preparations saw many dead animals taken into the Moss household. A whole dead pig on a spit, a deer's head, a tiger skin and stuffed birds...

Pig organs ‘available to patients in a decade’

Pig organs have for a long time been seen as a possibly beeing able to be used as in humans but rejection has been a problem. Now scientists have announced that using genetically modified pigs bred specifically...

Art pigs raise £200,000

Since mid-October one hundred painted fibreglass pigs have been scattered around the historic city of Bath. They were created by sculptor Alan Dun and each one painted by a different artist including Peter Blake...

Pig holds woman hostage for 10 days

" Canberra: A pony-size pig who held an Australian woman hostage for 10 days inside her home will be removed on Wednesday to a piggery, where his bacon will be saved by a stint on stud duties, rangers said. ...

Obama Attacks McCain in "You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, but it's Still a Pig"...

Senator Barack Obama claims today that the McCanin camp have got it all wrong if they thought he was referring to Republican running partner and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin when he quipped, "You can put lipstick...

China prepares for more pork production

China's decision to reduce import taxes on pork is a clear sign of interest on the part of the Beijing government in facilitating foreign purchases, members of a Brazilian delegation have commented while visiting a trade fair in Guangzhou. They have been attending the China...

Five-Legged Pig Born in China

The "five-legged" pig appears to have an extra limb protruding from its chest.   It is not known if its name is Jake the Peg...   " A five-legged pig? Surely someone must be telling porkies…? ...

Animals at Bondla Zoo, Goa

Animals at the Bondla zoo, Goa, India

Pig in Boots: The world's only porker who is afraid of mud

I am a bit fed up with the Lisbon Treaty and other depressing news so I needed something a bit lighter and as I know that all of you here really like pigs I thought that you might like this story.For more...

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