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.

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 ...

The science behind lower carbon pigs. Better breeding programs lead to healthier pigs that place a lower burden on the environment. The result is a significant reduction in the carbon footprint of ...

Pigs that digest their nutrients could reduce pork industry's carbon footprint. eLife . Funder National Science and Technology Major Project for Transgenic Breeding ...

Pigs pass gas and when they do, ... A University of Saskatchewan researcher has received a $241,000 grant to study whether the carbon footprint of pigs can be reduced by altering their diet.

The world’s largest pork producer Smithfield Foods will work with Virginia-based Dominion Energy to harness methane gas from the thousands of pigs Smithfield rears each year. “The ...