Scientists have evaluated the factors involved in causing injuries or even death in pigs as they are transported to the slaughter house. The results show that the stress and suffering the animals ...

Kansas State University researchers are planning a road trip later this year—actually about 40 of them—to learn more about what effect that transporting pigs has on muscle fatigue in those animals.

C. Richard Cranwell, the gentleman from Vinton, had a favorite admonishment to those who sometimes confused motion with direction: “You can’t fatten a pig by weighing it.” (If you don’t understand ...