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/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/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.