I was surprised there were so little livestock compared to people.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/1...hogs-and-pigs/
There are 20 million hogs in Iowa. 8.5 million in North Carolina.
Some more amazing things about the animal food industry - dunno who all remembers the
Oprah controversy and the Food disparagement laws. In that case, she and a guest were sued for making supposedly liabelous statements about the cattle industry. They won the suit.
But since then we have
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Now you can be criminally prosecuted for saying true things about the animal-food industry if you harm their profits.
They don't need even need to prosecute people, just the threat keeps people from talking about it, and more importantly, from broadcasting or printing criticism of the animal-food industry. Also tied in with Pharmaceutical companies and animal testing.
The first prosecution with this law convicted and sentenced people for
up to 6 years in prison for sending black faxes (just like it sounds, to use up their ink/toner) to a pharmaceutical company.