CAIRO, May 3 (UPI) -- Egyptian swine farmers reportedly threw projectiles at police in Cairo Sunday in protest of a plan to cull Egypt's pigs to prevent the spread of swine flu.
CAIRO, May 2 (UPI) -- Egyptian authorities have begun slaughtering 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu, officials said.
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Greek government said farmers should negotiate, rather than protest in the streets following a skirmish between farmers and police.
OTTAWA, April 24 (UPI) -- Statistics Canada painted a grim picture of Canada's once-robust hog industry Thursday, reporting a drop in inventories and farmers closing their farms.
OTTAWA, April 14 (UPI) -- A federal subsidy for Canadian pig farmers began Monday to pay them to shrink an oversupply by about 10 percent.
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- More than 1,000 Guatemalan farmers have waged protests over the arrest of one of their leaders, Prensa Libre newspaper reported Friday.
ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Greek dairy farmers dumped milk onto the roads to protest what they say are low prices.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A pig used for research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will have its DNA provide the first sequence of the swine genome.
BEIJING, July 29 (UPI) -- The death toll from a disease spread by pigs climbed in Sichuan Friday to 31 despite Chinese health official promises the outbreak was is under control.
LIMA, May 30 (UPI) -- Twenty people were injured in a clash between Peruvian authorities and coca farmers in the dense jungles of the country's northeastern region.
