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0 pointsPropelloni2y ago0 comments

This number seems a little bit off. About 900 million pigs are slaughtered in Asia per year [1] That's 2.5 million dead pigs a day. Since we need live animals to breed more for killing them and it takes time before they are killed, this suggests that at any given time more than a billion pigs are alive in Asia.

But good thing that we sterilized those 150000 dogs, anything else would have been inhumane [2]

[1] https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-a... [2] Sorry, I'm bitter.

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Adverblessly2y ago

According to a random page I found online, pigs are typically slaughtered at 5-6 months old, so assuming a stable population, you'd expect the number of living pigs (raised for slaughter) at any time to be 42%-50% of the yearly amount, so 375,000,000 - 450,000,000 going purely off of your 900,000,000 figure, making 500,000,000 a reasonable estimate, no?

PropelloniOP2y ago

Wow, that is sooner than I expected. I was thinking along the lines of 12 month and thought, nah, that's too quick. Thank you!

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