Are 1.5 Trillions Animals Killed Every Year For Food

Worldwide, more than lxx billion land animals are killed for food every twelvemonth. Our series of charts based on United Nations data shows the trends by type of animal.

Delight meet our Global Animal Slaughter Statistics & Charts: 2020 Update here.

Every year, billions of animals are slaughtered by the animate being agronomics manufacture. The practice causes suffering on a massive scale that may be difficult for people to understand. Information provided past governments and industries are often focused on metrics like the weight of meat produced or consumed. As brute advocates, withal, we care more often than not about individual lives.

Taking that perspective, guest author Bas Sanders explores more than 50 years of animal slaughter trends. This series focuses on v master groups of farmed animals: cows, chickens, goats, pigs and sheep, based on information pulled from the Food and Agronomics Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. This post provides an overview of global animal slaughter. In the species-specific posts below, we explore the 5 animal types in depth. Their datasets can be constitute at the bottom of each page.

[Note: Though the FAO is unique in existence able to provide global scale statistics on animal agriculture, there are questions about the overall accuracy of their statistics. A critique of FAO stats tin be found here.]

Global Cow Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Craven Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Pig Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Sheep Slaughter Statistics And Charts
Global Goat Slaughter Statistics And Charts

For our beginning look at the number of animals slaughtered worldwide, the interactive line chart below shows the 55-year trend (1961-2016) for the five animal groups mentioned before. Note that we have only included the 5 species mentioned previously.

Obviously, the chief story is that chickens are – past far – the most slaughtered country animal. The difference is so corking that it makes the rest of the chart unreadable. In the updated chart below, we show chickens in thousands, which allows us to more than easily analyze the results for other species.

As the chart shows, in the menses from 1961 to 2016 the number of slaughtered animals has increased for all the animal types. Once more, nigh of the country animals slaughtered in 2016 were chickens. This was followed by pigs, sheep, goats, and cows. Information technology is interesting to note that the number of slaughtered goats became larger than the number of slaughtered cows during the mid 1990s.

The FAO data are for domestic "product" of farmed land animals and the question often comes up regarding imports and exports. 1 might suspect that the number of animals traded correlates with the number of animals slaughtered. Below we plot the tendency of the number of animals imported and exported in the globe. Over again, we display the number of slaughtered chickens in thousands to help with interpretation for other species.

When one compares the slaughter charts with import and export charts (which are logically like), we over again see some evidence of a correlation between slaughter and merchandise. We examine this further for each of the half dozen species in the articles linked beneath.

Another question that oftentimes comes up relates to population. The number of state animals slaughtered differs widely by country, but then does the human population. The chart below shows brute slaughter per capita, once again showing the number of slaughtered chickens in thousands.

When nosotros suit for population size past looking at per capita information, information technology'south interesting to note that the number of cows and sheep slaughtered per person decreases over the years (even though the actual number of slaughtered animals increased). The number of pigs, goats, and chickens slaughtered increased over time.

Source: https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-and-charts/

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