I have heard the commercial from the pork industry referring to pork as the other white meat, suggesting that it compares to chicken as far as nutrition is concerned. Hogs are leaner than they used to be due to improved breeding and feeding, but clearly fat content and nutritional value also depend on the cut of pork and how it is cooked. ANSWER: The advertisement is a clever marketing ploy by the pork industry, which is attempting to piggyback on the popularity of chicken. Department of...

So cheap, in fact, that the market price paid to farmers has routinely been well below the cost of production. And multinational grain companies exported our cheap corn to gain footholds in other markets around the world, often driving farmers in poor countries out of business. And its rising price is a harbinger of major changes taking place in agriculture. Listen closely, and you can hear a growing roar of worry about the high price of corn, increasing from $2. High fructose corn syrup,...

The company s permit now prohibits it from buying hogs from farms built after 2002 unless the farms use such methods, a ban that state regulators continue to support. Under those exemptions to the 1997 law that established the moratorium, 73 new hog farms have been built, 25 have been expanded and four were reactivated, state water regulators told The News & Observer of Raleigh. The majority of these exceptions use waste pits and spray fields to dispose of hog manure, both of which the...

Remember the 1,100-pound "Hogzilla" shot in a Georgia swamp a couple years ago? Rumors began circulating a year or two ago that hogs that had escaped from commercial hunting preserves were creating little wild piggy families in a few spots in Penn's Woods. Remember the 1,100-pound "Hogzilla" shot in a Georgia swamp a couple years ago? Rumors began circulating a year or two ago that hogs that had escaped from commercial hunting preserves were creating little wild piggy families in a few...

Delicious world of the other white meat Pork quality improves, making the easy-to-prepare meat an even better option No meat offers a cook more than pork does. Compared with 40 years ago, each sow today produces 50 percent bigger litters, according to a study in the journal Advances in Pork Production, and pigs need one-third less food to produce one-third more lean meat (and are ready for slaughter at a far younger age hence pork s turn from pink to pale) It seems that you can t turn...