Also helping the guinea pig's case on U.S. menus: the tiny livestock is a low-carbon footprint source of meat as compared to beef, a major plus with environmentalists. And the introduction of the ...

The residents of Pachacamac, a Peruvian village outside Lima, have almost one thousand fluffy, tailless guinea pigs in an enclosure. They’re not pets though: instead, the animals are a source of ...

Who would have thought that six farmers meeting up in an English pub in the 1950s would have helped to improve the carbon footprint of 21st century pigs? It might not have been part of those ...

However, our findings indicate that these pigs are promising resources for improving feed efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of the pork industry." The paper 'Novel transgenic pigs with ...

Pigs pass gas and when they do ... if improving nutrient digestibility with dietary enzymes reduces the carbon footprint of pork production. It will look at the cost benefits of alternate ...

“The environmental footprint of agriculture has to do with ... s hog finishing spaces in North Carolina and Utah, where pigs grow from 50 pounds to market weight. These are the largest farms ...