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What is a Pig Worth?

Radiolab by WNYC Studios

May 1, 202600:42:48Science & Medicine

In 2017, Wayne Hsiung and a crew of animal rights activists from Direct Action Everywhere broke into a Utah pig farm run by Smithfield Foods, one of the largest pork distributors in the world. They were there to capture...

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