Meaning of pig farm | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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?”

“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.”

“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).”

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