![]() Chapter Sections 1. Summary 2. Chickens 3. Pigs 4. Beef Cattle 5. Fish 6. Meat Consumption 7. Fur-bearers 8. Experimental Animals |
How to Do Animal Rights - and Win the War on Animals ![]() ![]() Table 1. The Number of Pigs People Keep Worldwide
Source. Live Swine Selected Countries Summary. Production (Pig Crop), and Total Beginning Stocks. In Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade. United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis. Circular Series DL&P 2-07 November 2007. www.fas.usda.gov. (Web site accessed February 2008.) Notes for Table 1 Figures in this table are derived from the USDA (see Source below the table). USDA state that their data are based on "USDA-FAS attaché reports, official statistics, and results of office research" and that figures for 2007 are preliminary and are estimates for 2008. They also say their data include only those countries which are the major animal producers; therefore, World Total in this table is a minimum figure, less than the actual total. The USDA provide two sets of figures in their original data: 'Total Beginning Stocks' and 'Production Crop'. Beginning Stocks are the animals alive at the start of the year and breed the Production Crop. The number of Beginning Stocks remain roughly constant from year to year and it is largely the Production Crop that is slaughtered. Pig numbers in this table include both classes of pig and should give an estimate of the total number of pigs in countries. Livestock are impossible to count accurately; therefore I have rounded the figures in this table to avoid spurious accuracy and totals may not necessarily add up exactly. ![]() Table 2. The Number of Pigs People Kill Worldwide
Source. Live Swine Selected Countries Summary. Production (Pig Crop). In Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade. United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Global Analysis. Circular Series DL&P 2-07 November 2007. www.fas.usda.gov. (Web site accessed February 2008.) Notes for Table 2 Notes for Table 1 also apply to this table. ![]() Other Statistical Sources FAO figures are from 'spot counts'. A spot count is a census of animals on one day in the year (eg 1 July or 31 December). A spot count does not count all the animals born during the year (animals may have died before the spot count or born after it and not counted). Therefore FAO figures consistently underestimate the total number of animals. The USDA data above on pig numbers and slaughter agree reasonably will with data about pigs in China, differing by plus or minus a few million pigs for each year data is given.
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