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  2. Environmental impact of pig farming - Wikipedia

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    The environmental impact of pig farming is mainly driven by the spread of feces and waste to surrounding neighborhoods, polluting air and water with toxic waste particles. [1] Waste from pig farms can carry pathogens, bacteria (often antibiotic resistant), and heavy metals that can be toxic when ingested. [ 1 ]

  3. Environmental impacts of animal agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The environmental impact of pig farming is mainly driven by the spread of feces and waste to surrounding neighborhoods, polluting air and water with toxic waste particles. [270] Waste from pig farms can carry pathogens, bacteria (often antibiotic resistant), and heavy metals that can be toxic when ingested. [ 270 ]

  4. Pig farming - Wikipedia

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    Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork : bacon , ham , gammon ) and skins .

  5. Environmental impact of agriculture - Wikipedia

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    The environmental impact of agriculture is the effect that different farming practices have on the ecosystems around them, and how those effects can be traced back to those practices. [1] The environmental impact of agriculture varies widely based on practices employed by farmers and by the scale of practice.

  6. Livestock's Long Shadow - Wikipedia

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    Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options is a United Nations report, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on 29 November 2006, [1] that "aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation". [1]

  7. Anaerobic lagoon - Wikipedia

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    Unlike manure produced in a conventional farm, CAFO manure cannot all be used as direct fertilizer on agricultural land because of the poor quality of the manure. [citation needed] Moreover, CAFOs produce a high volume of manure. A feeding operation with 800,000 pigs could produce over 1.6 million short tons (1,500,000 tonnes) of waste per year ...

  8. Category:Pig farming - Wikipedia

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    Category: Pig farming. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Environmental impact of pig farming; F. Feed ratio; Feedback (pork industry) ...

  9. Effects of climate change on livestock - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, a little over 50% of all pork production and 70% of all poultry production worldwide originated from animals kept entirely in confined buildings even around 2006, and the raw numbers were expected to increase by 3–3.5 times for pigs, by 2–2.4 times for layer hens and 4.4–5 times for broilers.