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Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork : bacon , ham , gammon ) and skins .
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.
Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing or straw-lined sheds, whilst pregnant sows are housed in gestation crates or pens and give birth in farrowing crates.
Industrial pig farming has become a common practice for producing pork in the country of France. However, the local community of consumers has become skeptical of intensive industrial pig production. Safety factors, quality of meat and impacts on the environment are all reasons for the decrease of pig farming production throughout France.
Industrial production of pigs and poultry is an important source of greenhouse gas emissions and is predicted to become more so. On intensive pig farms, the animals are generally kept on concrete with slats or grates for the manure to drain through. The manure is usually stored in slurry form (slurry is a liquid mixture of urine and feces).
In Israel, pig-raising has been limited by law to certain areas and institutions. [35] [36] Some pig-related laws are openly circumvented. [37] Swine production has increased from an estimated annual slaughter of 50,000 swine in 1960 [35] to 180,000 in 2010. [38] Pig meat consumption per capita was 2.7 kg in 2009. [39]
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Estimated world livestock numbers (million head) [6] type 1999 2000 2012 % change 1990–2012 Cattle and Buffaloes: 1445: 1465: 1684: 16.5 Pigs: 849: 856: 966: 13.8 Poultry