The Pork Industry’s Role in the Future of Modern Medicine

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By Natural Resources Defense CouncilJun 6, 2018, 9:45 am48 pts
By David Wallinga, MD More than a century ago, my grandfather left his family's farm in Sioux Center, Iowa to study medicine, and later to set up practice in St. Paul, MN—which was founded as Pig's Eye, of course. To my Gramps, they must have seemed like very separate worlds. The farm, where people still…

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