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A strange catastrophe struck Spain's pig farmers in the spring of 2010. On 41 farms across the country—each home to between 800 and 3,000 pigs—many sows suddenly ceased bearing young. On some farms, ...

Women wash pig's intestines in the local river near the village of Linares, Spain. After the matanza, or pig slaughter, every part of the animal is used, nose to tail. Here, the women are cleaning the ...

Pig farmer Armando Escaño stands with his Iberian pigs on his farm on western Spain's dehesa. Escaño raises pigs for jamón ibérico, Spain's most prized ham. In Spain, an age-old way of surviving the ...