'We're being invaded by pigs': Spain's pork revolution faces backlash

The country's transformation into one of the world's biggest pork producers is helping to accelerate rural depopulation, claim opponents of the industry? Photographs by Pablo Blázquez for the GuardianThe village school shut down more than four decades ago. The two-storey stone hotel closed its doors in 2008. Yet the past 15 years have seen a population boom - of sorts - in the Spanish village of Balsa de Ves."We're being invaded by pigs," says the mayor, Natividad Pérez García, pointing to a cluster of elongated sheds on the outskirts of the village. The buildings are home to 3,900 sows, who produce approximately 100,000 piglets a year. "We're at more than 800 pigs for every resident," says Pérez García. Continue reading...