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Pigs are extensively farmed, and therefore the terminology is well developed: Pig, hog, or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural. Shoat (or shote), piglet, or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig [23] Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning
It is responsible for somewhere between 20 and 33% of the fresh water usage in the world, [57] and livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of Earth's ice-free land. [58] Livestock production is a contributing factor in species extinction, desertification, [59] and habitat destruction. [60]
A demand for pork emerges, and so one or two farmers begin raising pigs. While pig supply is limited, prices are high – at this point of the cycle, pork is a rare good. More farmers realise the value potential and also begin raising pigs. As more and more piggeries come 'online,' the price begins to decrease as supply increases.
It uses between 20 and 33% of the world's fresh water, [81] Livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of the Earth's ice-free land. [82] Livestock production contributes to species extinction, desertification, [83] and habitat destruction. [84] and is the primary driver of the Holocene extinction.
Swine production has increased from an estimated annual slaughter of 50,000 swine in 1960 [35] to 180,000 in 2010. [38] Pig meat consumption per capita was 2.7 kg in 2009. [ 39 ] Although pork marketing is prohibited in some religious localities, [ 36 ] pork products are available elsewhere at non-kosher butchers and by the Mizra and Tiv Ta'am ...
The greater part of the meat industry is the meat packing industry – the segment that handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of animals such as poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock. An industrial meat packing plant in 2013
For pig trader Fang, the discovery of the deadly African swine fever in China last month has brought his once booming business to a sudden halt. From northeast Liaoning province, Fang used to ...
Livestock make up 60% of the biomass of all mammals on earth, followed by humans (36%) and wild mammals (4%). [ 142 ] [ 143 ] In November 2017, 15,364 world scientists signed a Warning to Humanity calling for a drastic reduction in per capita consumption of meat and "dietary shifts towards mostly plant-based foods". [ 144 ]