Pigs

The FDA cleared the last hurdle for the first GMO fish. Industry groups want pigs to be next.

Miss Chinatown USA Jasmine Lee holds a piglet while ushering in the Chinese New Year on February 5th, 2019, in San Francisco, California.

A worker installs a portion of a fence along the Danish border with Germany that is meant to stop wild boar from entering Denmark, on January 31st, 2019, near Tonder, Denmark.

Those living near factory farms have to contend with noxious odors, toxic emissions, and swarms of insects, and have had little success in obtaining relief—but that is changing.

A look at some of the numbers behind a ban that consumer groups have long lobbied for.

Artificial insemination is much more efficient.

Researchers are wading into the murky waters of animal psychology.

How have the farm animals of today been shaped by centuries of domestication and selective breeding? Sujata Gupta investigates.

Tiny numbers, big impacts.