animal husbandry

What’s the next best thing to a roll in the mud with pigs?

Global Scan

Chinese pigs need a genetic upgrade, so Britain has graciously offered to help China at a $74 million per year price tag. China may not have bragged about its pigs, but an international test showed Chinese kids at the top of the class. But there’s a catch. And Iceland grieves after the the police kill a man, for the first time in the country’s history. All that and more, in today’s Global Scan.

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