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Though their could be a huge variation in reported numbers it's estimated that:
In the United States, around nine billion animals are slaughtered every year (this includes about 150.4 million cattle, bison, sheep, hogs, and goats and 8.9 billion chickens, turkeys, and ducks) in 5,700 slaughterhouses and processing plants employing 527,000 workers.
Worldwide figures, around 90 billion marine animals including 1 billion frogs (125 million metric tons), 42 billion chickens, 2.3 billion ducks, 1.3 billion pigs, 900 million rabbits, 665 million turkeys, 525 million geese, 475 million sheep, 350 million goats, 290 million cows, 65 million guinea pigs, 55 million pigeons, 22 million buffalo, 15 million dogs, 9 million camels/donkeys/horses, 3 million cats, etc.
According to the National Agricultural
Statistics Service, the following number of animals were slaughtered in the US in 2008:
cattle 34.4 million (avg/day 94,247)
calves 956,600 (avg/day 2,621)
hogs 116.5 million (avg/day 319,178)
sheep and lambs 2.56 million (avg/day 7,014)
chickens 9,075,261,000 (avg/day 24,863,729)
turkeys 3,672,000 (avg/day 10,060)
Millions there are many cows and pigs being slaughtered, male chicks being killed because they are no use to battery hen ware houses, hens suffering deceases form being in wire cages that are way to small.
We need to change the world and maybe this generation can I know I am going to try and help those animals suffering
FREE RANGE!!!!!!! (is the best solution to the argument in which caged animals is necessary or just to cruel.
I don't know about food, but it's been said 3000 cow are killed for 1 season of football.
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