The United States slaughters 1 million pigs every 3 days
Published by Alex Bugeja on February 3rd, 2019 12:04pm.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-01/killing-22-hogs-a-minute-meatpackers-test-old-limits-of-safety
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-01/killing-22-hogs-a-minute-meatpackers-test-old-limits-of-safety
The Trump administration wants to offer the Beardstown model to other slaughterhouses and estimates 40 plants will ultimately participate. Collectively, these process more than 90 percent of the 120 million hogs killed in the U.S. every year.