Haul bags are affectionately called pigs because when you're pulling one up a pitch it feels like you might as well be dragging a hog up a mountain.

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And as you can see the desired, target, interest rates are very different for the peripheral countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the so called PIGS) than they are for the core countries (Belgium Holland, Germany, France etc).

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The new strain, called H1N1, emerged from pigs and jumped over to humans sometime in late 2008, and then swept through the human population starting in the spring of 2009.

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Instead, Dr Raihani and Ms McAuliffe decided to follow a new fashion in psychology and recruit their human guinea pigs through a system called Mechanical Turk.

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In places where thousands of pigs are reared in so called factory farms, the run off from the manure has been known to contaminate water tables.

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The farm owner, Norman Ellis, had called in the local vet because three of his pigs had gone lame.

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Smithfield and other pork producers in the U.S. follow a set of guidelines developed by the National Pork Board, an industry group, called the "Pork Quality Assurance Plus" program that governs the feeding and care of pigs.

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