The National Pork Board says modern pig production has
reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 35 per cent compared with 1959, uses 41 per
cent less water and requires 78 per cent less land to produce pork.
"As a pork producer, I'm proud of the
accomplishments we've made as an industry," said Conley Nelson, National
Pork Board president.
"But today's competitive market demands that we do
even more to improve how we produce pork.
“That's why pork producers are working together to fund
new environmental research that will help us build on the progress we've made
over the past 50 years," he said in a news release on Earth Day.
Dr. Garth
Boyd, who was the leader of the study, said improving feed efficiency by 33 per
cent was the main contributor.
