I live on a pig farm. Oink!
Do you really? Fascinating.  i know that are farmed to be eaten principally but are they also farmed to dispose of municipal garbage?
I'm not sure about that. Do you know how many pigs are butchered each year?
raise a large amount of pigs in a very cost-efficient manner. In developed nations, commercial farms house thousands of pigs in cramped, climate-controlled buildings with little to no exposure to sunlight or the outdoors. Pigs are a popular form of livestock, with more than one billion pigs butchered each year worldwide, 100 million of them in the USA. The majority of pigs are used for human food but also supply skin, fat and other materials for use as clothing, ingredients for processed foods, cosmetics, and
were kept in small numbers and were closely associated with the residence of the owner, or in the same village or town. They were valued as a source of meat and fat, and for their ability to convert inedible food into meat, and were often fed household food waste when kept on a homestead. Pigs have been farmed to dispose of municipal garbage on a large scale.
All these forms of pig farm are in use today, though intensive farms are by far the most popular, due to their potential to