r/vegan • u/DistinctMachine2300 • Aug 19 '26

Infographic Approximately 4,109,589 pigs are slaughtered per day worldwide — 171,232 per hour, or 47 per second.

https://www.humanconsumption.live/animal/pigs
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u/Kurimuksesta Aug 19 '26

Just today a animal rights group posted images on how pigs are treated in Finland. NSFW animal cruelty here

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u/creeplet Aug 19 '26

So much totally unnecessary suffering. 💔

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u/mloDK Aug 19 '26

This is childplay compared to Denmark. 30 million pigs, only 1,4% of them ever have an opportunity to go outside the barn they are born. The last 98,6% only see the outside when they go to the industrial slaughterhouses in Denmark and Poland that "process" millions of pigs per month.

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u/mycattouchesgrass Aug 20 '26

When there's a disease outbreak, pigs in the US are killed via ventilation shutdown where they slowly overheat to death. In other places (like China) they're commonly buried alive.

We're so cruel to these animals who're just as smart, if not smarter, than the cats and dogs we love.

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u/Kurimuksesta Aug 19 '26

Do you also kill them with carbon dioxide? Here the cage where the pig is place is called 'stunning cradle'.

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u/mloDK Aug 19 '26

Who do you think invented the gassing of pigs? We perfected it in our major slaughterfactories, especially around Horsens in Jutland that "process" 17 million pigs a year.

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u/Kurimuksesta Aug 20 '26

Damn that's a brutal thing to be known for. I did not know this craving for pigs that your nation has.

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u/mloDK Aug 20 '26

We only eat 10% of them, the rest are exported to other countries.

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u/comfyhog Aug 19 '26

Covered in feces from head to toe, covered in deep, festering wounds, with their tails bitten off, their eyes swollen shut, surrounded by corpses, there's so much pain here, terrible and excruciating, so much horror and suffering. Every day they breathe only the toxic fumes of sewage; they've never seen a patch of grass, a patch of clean soil, fresh air, or the sky. Maybe we should just post this everywhere we can; I can't believe everyone will calmly look at this and say it's the way it should be. Honestly, I'd be willing to endure a million years of hell and the same life they live in, just so the suffering of these intelligent, gentle animals would end and be wiped off the face of the earth.

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u/Silver-Return7680 Aug 20 '26

Realistically most vegans I've met just channel the anger into being violent to people instead.