• @can@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    8•9 months ago

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    [image of the United States in white on a black background with black border lines around the states. There is a cluster of dots mainly in the north east section. “Each dot represents 5,000 hogs” ]

    nemfrog

    “Each dot represents 5,000 hogs.” World Geography. 1948.

    lemondemon

    untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean

    sketchmagetch

    Each state is lined with an impenetrable wall.of swine. We are trapped

    2kittensinacup

    We’ve lost canada and mexico to the hogs already

    • @laylawashere44English
      1•9 months ago

      When you only grow stupid barely edible shit like corn and soybeans, the next logical step is to build a shed and feed a thousand pigs the corn and soy.

      • @SkyeStarfallEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        How is corn and soy barely edible. Soy is a complete protein

        • @laylawashere44English
          2•9 months ago

          I was exaggerating, but the majority of corn and soy grown go into non human consumption or highly processed human food. 70% of American soybeans are used for animal feed. Mostly chickens in America and most of the exported soybeans are fed to pigs in China. 5% is biofuel. That’s 75% of the crop not being for human consumption. And of the 25% left who is used for human food, 80% is used to make cooking oil.

          It’s a similar story for corn. 45% is used to make ethanol even though without government mandating it be added to petrol, no one would. Then 40% is fed to animals. That’s 85% of corn that was grown not for human consumption.