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...infant piglet's life is confused and dangerous, and mom is usually to blame. Some sows eat their young, and many roll on them or trample them to death. Another bad habit of sows is producing more pigs than they can feed properly. The average sow has only eight or ten teats (some of which may not be functioning), and she often farrows as many as 16 pigs. The runts and laggards that don't connect with a functional teat during their early mealtimes are gone pigs. Hunger makes them too weak to compete in later battles...
Sound Sleepers. The Pfizer Co.'s interest in livestock began with the discovery that its antibiotic, terramycin, when mixed with the feed, increases the growth rate of pigs. At first the Pfizer pigmen tried feeding terramycin to the brood sow, in hopes that some of the strengthening drug would filter down in her milk. This proved impractical; it took too much terramycin. Then Pfizer decided to take the piglets away from their mothers at the age of two days and raise them on synthetic sow's milk spiked with terramycin...
...sound sleepers. When one is really asleep, it can be rolled around or bounced on the floor without waking up. It will even sleep through meal periods and die of malnutrition. About the only thing that will wake a piglet is the deep, rumbling grunt that the mother sow gives when she "lets down" her milk. When they hear it, the more alert pigs wake up and scuttle squealing to the teat line. As they suckle, they squeal with joy, and their racket wakes the other pigs...
...Sow-Milk. Brooklyn's Chas. Pfizer & Co. has developed a synthetic sow-milk called "Terralac," fortified with the antibiotic Terramycin. With Terralac, farmers can take baby pigs, which usually suckle for 56 days, away from the sow within 48 hours, prevent the newborn from being crushed by its clumsy mother. In experiments, Terralac cut down infant pig mortality to 5% (v. normal...
...Arabs, who lost their land to the Israelis, last week got it back-symbolically. Reviving the ancient tradition of shemittah, or sabbatical year ("And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still"- Exodus, 23:10-11), Israeli rabbis turned over all the Jewish land to an Arab for the new Jewish year which starts Oct. 1. The land transfer has no legal standing...