pig
Apr 28 2009, Allan

This was sent in by a reader.

I’m not sure where it came from but the message is clear!

In 1965, there were 53 million hogs on more than 1 million US farms.

Today, 65 million hogs are concentrated in just 65,000 facilities....

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