A nonprofit trying to stop MeritCare from using live pigs in its trauma training plans to ask North Dakota State University to stop approving the practice. The Institutional Animal Care and Use ...

FARGO - A national physicians group that for several years has protested the use of live pigs by Sanford Health and North Dakota State University in a trauma training course is trying a new strategy ...

A national group is urging the University of Missouri’s emergency medicine residency program in Columbia to halt its use of live pigs to train new ER doctors. A spokesperson for the medical school ...

Nine-year-old Bristol Carrabino and her younger sister, Bailyn, know a lot about a pig named Wilbur. “I talk to him when I walk him. Sometimes, I sing him a song that’s playing on the radio in the ...

Show pigs are purchased in late winter and cost from a few hundred dollars to well over $1,000. Every day, they have to be fed and groomed and exercised. Their pens get swept and filled with clean ...

Joel Buyer, 16, has shown pigs at the Breaking Boundaries show for three years. Members of the Ohio Pork Council stood within gated pig pens under the cover of the O’Neill Swine Barn at the Ohio State ...

Crowds of brown, pink and black pigs milled Tuesday around the show barns at the Jefferson City Jaycees Cole County Fair, some oinking loudly, but most dozing in the muggy summer air as they waited ...