Pig

In North Carolina, pork now outweighs tobacco as the state’s major product. Aileen LeBlanc reports from North Carolina on the environmental impacts of the hog farm boom. Waterways that transport hog waste and drinking water are being especially hard hit by this rising industry.

Author and compulsive traveler Sy Montgomery found her domestic anchor in Christopher Hogwood, a 750-pound pig who uprooted and brought together her small New Hampshire community.

Commentator Sy Montgomery pays tribute to her beloved pet pig, Christopher Hogwood.

Commentator Sy Montgomery laments the good old days when her 750-pound pig Christopher Hogwood used to eat regular old slops. Ever since a big storm knocked out electric power and neighbors brought over all their melting ice cream the pig has been spoiled rotten.

Commentator Verlyn Klinkenborg, who writes about “The Rural Life” for the New York Times contemplates the arrival two piglets that he hopes to raise for slaughter and what it all means for his relationship with the land.