Chef Timothy Bilton serves everything from Greedy Little Pig Yorkshire pork to locally stalked venison under the beams at this cosy gastropub, which featured in the Last of the Summer Wine TV series.

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The system is voluntary, but 84% of the U.S.'s pork producers have gotten certified under the program, representing 75% of the U.S. pig inventory, according to the pork board.

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Namely chitterlings -- a traditionally Southern delicacy made from pig intestines -- and barbecue pork.

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Officials say subsidies aimed at encouraging pig-rearing should cause the pork shortage to ease by the middle of next year.

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Few Americans know more about that hysteria and the cost it incurs than U.S. pig farmers, who can probably feel pork prices dropping everything someone uses the "s-word" despite the stubborn fact that one cannot contract this virus by eating pork.

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High pork prices may be attracting new entrants into pig farming.

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So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.

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The results will cause any pork lover to swoon, but the prospect of procuring and boning a whole pig and then wrangling it over a fire pit in my small and densely wooded yard seemed beyond impossible in this lifetime.

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The ambition persists despite marriage to the long-suffering Susana, perhaps the only Galician vegetarian, despite the menace of cholesterol from all those fat-laden pork sausages and despite the threat (kindly pointed out by Susana) that eating pig brain will lead to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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In order to dampen the rise in pork prices, China announced in July a series of measures, including subsidies to boost pig supply.

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The discovery of pig DNA in beef products is of particular concern to Jews and Muslims, whose dietary laws forbid the consumption of pork products.

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