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I remember reading that we kill 2 billion chickens a year to eat, although this site[1] says more like 66 billion chickens a year (and their source[2], although

I remember reading that we kill 2 billion chickens a year to eat, although this site[1] says more like 66 billion chickens a year (and their source[2], although on their graph they divided the chicken figure by 1000)... 66 billion chickens! I just had fried chicken for lunch, but damn, we humans are savages aren't we... [1] https://thehumaneleague.org/article/how-many-chickens-are-in-the-world https://thehumaneleague.org/article/how-many-chickens-are-in... [2] https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-and-charts-2020-update/ https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-a...

hombre_fatal 3y ago
The numbers are so crazy that it's easier to understand the insane daily slaughter numbers which are in the millions: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-... Another mind blowing stat is that of all the mammals in the world, wild mammals only make up 4% of the mammal biomass, humans 34%, and livestock (farmed animals) 62%. https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass
- someNameIG 3y ago
  Sea life is more insane, high end estimates are over 2 trillion killed a year, so ~5.5 billion a day. http://fishcount.org.uk/studydatascreens/2016/numbers-of-wild-fish-A0-2016.php http://fishcount.org.uk/studydatascreens/2016/numbers-of-wil...
  - hombre_fatal 3y ago
    That's nauseating.