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Evan Streeter specifically remembers one crisp October morning last year when one of his sows was nursing a litter of 16 piglets.
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Arianna Albano, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2025
Save for a few ear-piercing squeals, the day-old piglet happily took to bottle feeding and scurried around as several members of the Nashville Zoo veterinary team worked to weigh and examine him.
—Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
His 2020 documentary Gunda, executive produced by Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, examined the life of a pig raising a farrow of piglets who are then seized and sent to slaughter.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 June 2025
At the dawn of the new millennium, science was turning a corner: US researchers cracked the human genome; a biotech company successfully cloned five piglets; and McDonald’s started serving salad in a cup.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Arianna Albano, Charlotte Observer, 11 July 2025
Save for a few ear-piercing squeals, the day-old piglet happily took to bottle feeding and scurried around as several members of the Nashville Zoo veterinary team worked to weigh and examine him.
—Laura L. Davis, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
His 2020 documentary Gunda, executive produced by Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, examined the life of a pig raising a farrow of piglets who are then seized and sent to slaughter.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 June 2025
At the dawn of the new millennium, science was turning a corner: US researchers cracked the human genome; a biotech company successfully cloned five piglets; and McDonald’s started serving salad in a cup.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 June 2025
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“Piglet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piglet. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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piglet
noun
pig·let
ˈpig-lət 
: a baby pig
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