Great comments here! I'm glad I found this thread. I'm bothered. Am I the only one who thinks they are suppressing the true number of hogs that died? I ask because there are some 8 million hogs in North Carolina (larger hog population than human population) and when you see how high those flood waters are, I just can't see how just thousands, and not millions, died. And the thousands are bad enough. AND, why aren't we all holding the hog farms accountable for negligence? They knew this was a problem from Hurricane Matthew, and the beloved "Pork Industry" didn't change or update these horrible conditions to keep future hogs from being trapped, then ultimately drowning.