pig farm

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pig farm (plural pig farms)

1. (agriculture) A farm where domestic pigs are raised and bred, primarily for food and, sometimes, for their skin.

   Synonym: hog farm

   • 1977, David Young, “The Names of a Hare in English: Les noms de un levre en englais”, in Poetry‎^[1], volume 131, number 2, page 84 of 78-87:

     The dogs were barking over at the pigfarm,
     the leaftruck was crawling through autumn,
     lovers were unbuttoning in cellars
     and what was I up to in that badlit attic?

   • 2006 October 1, Rita Corbin, “Love Is the Only Solution”, in The Catholic Worker‎^[2], volume LXXIII, number 6, page 3b:

     He reminds me of a soldier I met in Cuba, who sat next to me in the station wagon which took a group of us on tour through a big school for children in Oriente Province. I was not too interested in the pig farm which we were being shown, and stayed in the car to rest, and he remained with me. Like all Cubans, he carried a book on Marxism-Leninism, and when I asked to see it and tried to read the Spanish, he shared it with me, and we read together, much as I read with the Polish pushcart man.

   • 2014 October 1, Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Benjamin S. Magbanua, Dennis D. Truax, “Natural Treatment and Onsite Processes”, in Water Environment Research‎^[3], volume 86, number 10, page 1228 of 1217–1249:

     High removal efficiencies of 94% and 98% were achieved for pharmaceutical compounds enrofloxacin (ENR, a fluoroquinolone) and tetracycline (TET, tetracyclines family) respectively in constructed wetlands treating pigfarm wastewater effluent doped at 100 μg/L drug level, along twelve weeks indicating adsorption to be the predominant mechanism for ENR, although for TET, there were signs of degradation (Carvalho et al., 2013).