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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It took two months of near daily conversations, of first cultivating trust and then love, before he walked into her trap. Two months of phone calls, text messages and video chats. Two months of ...

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.

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 ...