Etiket: Pigs
“Mini-cows”, miniature donkeys and dwarf pigs… Why animal protection associations are worried about this new trend on social networks
Coming straight from the United States, the “fashion” of “mini-animals” is increasingly popular lately on TikTok and Instagram in particular. At the alert point the vigilance of animal protection associations.…
“The situation will be worrying if the pigs are contaminated” reassures the Committee for Monitoring and Anticipation of Health Risks
The president of Covars, Brigitte Autran, reacts to the comments of the WHO on Thursday, which shared its “huge concern” about the growing spread of the H5N1 source of avian…
We let companies use our children as guinea pigs!
Would you allow pharmaceutical companies to test drugs on your children? That corporations are using your toddlers as guinea pigs to develop products that they will sell at a high…
“The forgotten guinea pigs”: ethical and personal excesses
The test The forgotten guinea pigs, by Sophie-Andrée Blondin and Lisa Ellenwood, explores the consequences of experiments carried out around the 1950s by psychiatrist Ewen Cameron in Montreal. Massive doses…
Recipe: the little pigs from “Folks & Forks”
This text is part of the special Pleasures notebook The popular blogger Folks & Forks love this essential, simple and tasty family recipe for the holidays. “It’s the best thing…
Web culture | The ballerina who raises pigs
A former Juilliard-trained ballerina and beauty pageant queen dances in the Utah sun while her gaggle of children pirouette in the hay. Hanna Neeleman is my age, 33. She is…
A pig’s heart was transplanted into a human for the second time
Welcome Health Lawrence Faucette, a former retired soldier, suffered from a serious heart disease which almost certainly doomed him. This transplant represented the only possible option for him. Published on…
A pig’s heart was transplanted into a human for the second time
Welcome Health Lawrence Faucette, a former retired soldier, suffered from a serious heart disease which almost certainly doomed him. This transplant represented the only possible option for him. Published on…
Anxiety and depression: we use our children as guinea pigs!
do you know the poem Desideratawhich the British writer Max Ehrman wrote in 1927? It is a series of advices that a man at the twilight of his life gives…
Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie | Activist group claims pigs exhibited under overpasses
The Montreal chapter of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE Montreal), which campaigns against animal husbandry, claimed responsibility for the hanging of three frozen pigs found under overpasses in the borough of…
Hard blow for breeders: Olymel will slaughter one million fewer pigs
Another bad news is falling on the pork industry in Quebec. Only 24 hours after announcing the closure of two processing plants, Olymel warned that it would reduce its slaughterings…
New Zealand dwarf pigs better than sheep for weeding vines? Full-scale test in Champagne
An animal experiment has been taking place since mid-January in a parcel of vines in Champagne with dwarf pigs from New Zealand. Their asset, they are light and more effective…
600,000 pigs in a 26-storey pigsty
A pharaonic project resembling a dystopia: China has just inaugurated the first of a series of piggeries on an unprecedented scale, which can house 600,000 animals in a 26-storey complex.…
“We were guinea pigs” … the question of medical treatments administered to young transgender people at the heart of the debates
Posted on 27/10/2022 10:12 Update on 27/10/2022 10:33 Article written by In 1972, Sweden was the first country in the world to recognize transgender people and help them find a…
“We were guinea pigs” … the question of medical treatments administered to young transgender people at the heart of the debates
Posted on 27/10/2022 10:12 Update on 27/10/2022 10:33 Article written by In 1972, Sweden was the first country in the world to recognize transgender people and help them find a…
a hundred pigs die in a road accident
A truck carrying 193 pigs destined for the slaughterhouse left the road around 7 a.m. Monday, in Evriguet (Morbihan). Article written by Published on 10/10/2022 23:00 Update on 10/10/2022 23:00…
[Éditorial de Louise-Maude Rioux Soucy] Resident doctors and guinea pigs
Five years of screaming in the desert of a bloodless health system is a long time. The radio silence of the Legault government about the disastrous reform of the training…
the “Blind Pigs Distillers” distillery launches the Noustanis!
The Southwest also has its pastis! Born in Béarn, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Artigueloutan, the Blind Pigs Distillers Distillery began its activity in this hot month of…
Throwing flip-flops, espadrilles, the pig’s cry: discover the unusual competitions of the South-West
You thought you had seen everything in your life? France Bleu will surprise you! As the international flip flops throwing competition approaches in Gironde, one of the biggest sporting and…
Music to influence the morale of the pigs
Scientists are conducting a study on the music that could potentially influence the morale of pigs in a pigsty in Belgium. “There is definitely a specific sound that influences animal…