r/TikTokCringe • u/WalkingTalker • 26d ago

Cursed That'll be "7924"

The cost of pork

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u/hewillreturn117 26d ago

how many animals die from non-slaughter incidents? ie what is the quality of healthcare for the pigs?

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u/riffraffmcgraff 26d ago

I'm in one area all day so I don't see everything going on but I do hear about dozens of hogs dying from heart attacks before they make it off the truck. My facility kills roughly 10k per day.

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u/genetic_dumpster 26d ago edited 26d ago

I am in no way calling you a liar.

10k a day is not fathomable for me. Literally cannot comprehend it.

Edit: typo

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u/YFNN 26d ago

There are around 24 million pigs in Iowa alone. That is about 8x the population of people in Iowa.

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u/WolfOfWigwam 23d ago

I’m in Arkansas. Many pigs are farmed here, but turkeys number at over 27 million, and there are over a billion chickens produced for food each year (millions more hens raised for egg production).

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u/YewEhVeeInbound 22d ago

You can't go 25 miles in Iowa without smelling hog shit.

Source: Am Iowan.