Pig

Pigüé ( ) is a town in Argentina located in the Pampas, south-west of Buenos Aires. It was founded by 165 Occitan-speaking French immigrants from Aveyron (Avairon in occitan) and one Argentine of direct Irish descent on December 4, 1884. The urban population is now 13,822 (INDEC 2001) and has increased by 9.5% since the 1991 census. Pigüé is the administrative centre of Saavedra Partido, Buenos Aires Province.

The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine ( : swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. Some authorities consider it a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar); other authorities consider it a distinct species. Pigs were domesticated independently twice during the Neolithic, in the Near East around the Tigris Basin, and in China. When domesticated pigs arrived in Europe from the Near East, they extensively interbred with wild boar in Europe but retained their domesticated features. Pigs are farmed primarily for meat, called pork. The animal's skin or hide is used for leather. China is the world's largest pork producer, followed by the European Union and then the United States. Around 1.5 billion pigs are raised each year, producing some 120 million tonnes of meat, often cured as bacon. Some are kept as pets. Pigs have featured in human culture since Neolithic times, appearing in art and literature for children and adults, and celebrated in cities such as Bologna for their meat products. Chen, Kevin, and Jimin Wang. "Hog farming in transition: The case of China." Asian livestock 16 (2012): 74+ online. Fleischmanm Thomas. Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall (U of Washington Press, 2020). Honeyman, M. S. "Sustainability issues of US swine production." Journal of animal science 74(6) (1996): 1410-1417. online Key, Nigel "The Changing Economics of U.S. Hog Production" (USDA Economic Research Service 2007) online MacKenzie-Dale, Brittni. "Swine: the animal industrial complex, resistance through storytelling, and the question of the animal in novel form" (PhD dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2018). online Malcolmson, Robert, and Stephanos Mastoris. The English Pig: A History (A&C Black, 1998), in UK. Mizelle, Brett. Pig (Reaktion Books, 2012) relation to humans, emphasis on in art and literature. online Newberry, Ruth C., and Wood-Gush, David G. M., "The Suckling Behaviour of Domestic Pigs in a Semi-Natural Environment", Behaviour 95(1/2) (November 1985): 11-25 online Voogt, Eric. "Pork, Pollution, and Pig Farming: The Truth About Corporate Hog Production in Kansas." Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 5 (1995): 219+ online, in USA. White, Sam. "From globalized pig breeds to capitalist pigs: a study in animal cultures and evolutionary history." Environmental history 16(1) (2011): 94-120 online Woods, Abigail. "Rethinking the history of modern agriculture: British pig production, c. 1910–65." Twentieth Century British History 23(2) (2012): 165-191. online Zering, Kelly. "Hog Farming, Past, Present, and Future: An Economist's View." Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law 34 (2018): 313+ online in USA

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