how many animals are slaughtered each year?!


Question: How many animals are slaughtered each year?
i'm doing a speech on how slaughter houses are wrong. i need to know how many animals each year are slaughtered. could someone please tell me about how many chickens, cattle, pigs, fish, and possibly other animals are slaughtered each year; month; or week(it doesn't really matter)?

Answers:

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; in 2007, 28.1 billion pounds of beef were consumed in the U.S. alone. In Canada, 650 million animals are killed annually. In the European Union, the annual figure is 300 million cattle, sheep, and pigs, and four billion chickens.

"How many plants are slaughter each year to feed thos vegan/veggies?"
Plants, lacking a central nervous system, do not have the ability to feel pain or be "slaughtered". Regardless, if you are concerned about plant life you should go vegan as it takes far more plants to feed an animal meant for human consumption than it does to feed that human in the first place.



~22,548 worldwide.

Did your teacher tell you to do research to learn this stuff or did she tell you to just ask people on the internet what they thought? Either way is fine with me. I was just curious.

I made it up.



Enough to feed the normal people of America. Slaughtering animals is not wrong in the least. Many other animals eat meat so why should we stop because a bunch of "people" think it's wrong?



how many plants are slaughter each year to feed thos vegan/veggies?
more than animals id say.



...just enough to keep my dinner plate full ! I LOVE ANIMALS ! I think "they" are so DELICIOUS !



not enough

P.F Changs



A lot.



who knows




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