Ailments? This is how pigs came to the rescue

As a historian, Pig Progress editor Vincent ter Beek likes to combine his passion with his profession from time to time, i.e. writing about pigs in the past. When you know where to look, pigs pop up everywhere – even in a centuries-old monastery in northern Spain. Large chunks of bacon, which after rendering can yield a lot of lard. - Photo: Canva This December I spent a week around Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, in northern Spain, hoping to detox a little bit f