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Farmer urges action to save rare British Lop pigs
A Cornish pig farmer is pressing for more efforts to preserve rare breeds as a report raises concerns about their ...
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A US farm breeds pigs for human kidney transplants
On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to ...
Hundreds of livestock breeds have gone extinct—but some Australian farmers are keeping endangered breeds alive
The rise of synthetic materials has endangered the remaining breeds producing carpet wool in New Zealand and Australia, ...
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RBST calls on Defra secretary to re-establish native breeds roundtable, after concerning declines
The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) has called on Defra secretary Steve Reed to re-establish the Ministerial Native Breeds ...
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From snorts to snouts: ten facts about pigs
1. There are 11 native British pig breeds and all of them are at risk of extinction according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Most pork and bacon comes from cross-bred hybrid pigs which started ...