Pigs

Meat Industry
In the United States, more than 109,000,000 pigs are killed each year. Globally, more than 1,244,000,000 pigs are killed for human consumption each year.¹

Hunting
In the United States, approximately 10,000 javelinas were killed by human hunters in 1989.²

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Photograph by Mark Peters.

1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., 2003
2. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1989