An Alabama woman underwent a transplant procedure to get a new kidney from a gene-edited pig. Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is ...

Dozens of U.S. restaurant companies pledged to end the use of gestation crates for pregnant pigs in their supply chains back in 2008. Since then, 11 states, including Iowa and others in the ...

Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant. Now an Alabama woman hopes for a better outcome.

photo by Artem Po Gestation crates (aka individual stalls) are metal enclosures, typically about 2 feet wide and 7 feet long, used to confine most pregnant pigs in the United States from the time ...

Life for pigs on Canada’s factory farms was set to change for the better thanks to a hard-won animal-welfare reform that would end the continuous confinement of pregnant sows in inhumane ...