U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors are stationed at every U.S. meatpacking plant, where they look for signs of illness upon entry, conduct random samples to detect whether the meat contains antibiotics and where they inspect the organs and skin of the slaughtered pigs for disease.

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Egypt has ordered the nation's quarter of a million pigs to be slaughtered over swine flu fears, in the first such move in the world, even though experts say the virus cannot be transmitted by eating meat.

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Pigs sometimes get slaughtered.

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More than 12, 000 pigs have had to be slaughtered following the outbreak of swine fever in Britain.

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On Wall Street it is said that pigs get fat but hogs get slaughtered.

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The Ministry of Agriculture has said about 1, 000 pigs on the farm would be slaughtered in the next couple of days.

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Pigs get an equivalent salon treatment before they're slaughtered, running free in pastures rather than being cooped up in cement pens.

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This year 3m cattle, 15m pigs, 17m sheep and almost 800m broiler chickens will be slaughtered.

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By that time there had been a total of 2, 364 outbreaks, and 433, 987 animals had been slaughtered and burnt -- 211, 825 cattle, 113, 766 pigs, 108, 345 sheep and 51 goats.

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