1.   Because the Niman pigs are raised in pastures instead of indoors, their waste products return to the soil naturally, instead of creating environmental problems.

2.   Big hog producers have started raising some pigs in the western provinces of Canada and are said to be considering doing the same in Mexico, he said.

3.   But even Nikodim concedes that the days when every farmer was able to raise a few pigs is now over.

4.   For the past three months, I have been thinking about raising pigs.

5.   He said later that people in the village have not raised pigs for two years.

6.   Hillcrest Farm raises no pigs of its own.

7.   I raise pigs Otto.

8.   In one house an elderly man was even raising pigs in his kitchen.

9.   Just down the road, a bulldozer is clearing ground to make way for a place where pigs will be raised differently.

10.   Over the years, the brothers raised fewer pigs, instead selling fill-dirt and gravel from the farm and dabbling in building demolition, friends said.