← on nowLGR-005 · v0.1.0 · model · count How many pigs are killed every second, every day, every year?
pigs · Sus scrofa domesticus
killed by humans
1.5 billion
a year
47.5
a second
4.1 million
a day
born to be killed
1.8 billion
a year
55.5
a second
4.8 million
a day
alive right now, in the queue: about 739 million (rate × 180 days). average time left: 90 days.
method FAO slaughter statistics; births = slaughter plus pre-weaning mortality (~12–15%).
- about one in eight dies before weaning. a pig can live fifteen years.source: FAO; industry mortality data
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=pigs" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · pigs"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- FAO slaughter statistics; births = slaughter plus pre-weaning mortality (~12–15%).
- range
- 1.4–1.6 billion/yr
- confidence
- count
- weakness
- pre-weaning mortality is taken from industry data in a few countries and applied globally.
- becomes a feed
- USDA daily slaughter
- dispute
- dispute LGR-005 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0