AnimalClock.org
January 2018
Animal Clock was created to bring attention to the incredible number of animals currently suffering on factory farms.
The website continually updates the number of animals who have been killed since you first open the page.
How many animals are killed for food in the US each year?
United States Department of Agriculture records show that 9.2 billion land
animals were slaughtered in 2015. Accounting for net U.S. land animal
exports of approximately 18% (almost all chickens), 7.5 billion land animals
were slaughtered to support the U.S. food supply.
In addition, roughly 5% of farmed land animals (mostly chickens) die before
slaughter. Inclusive of these deaths, 7.9 billion land animals died to
support the U.S. food supply in 2015.
Marine animal deaths are challenging to calculate since these lives are
measured in tons. A very thorough analysis completed by Counting Animals
estimated that 3.8 billion finned fish and 43.1 billion shellfish were
killed to support the U.S. food supply in 2013.
Taken together, nearly 55 billion land and sea animals are killed annually
to support the U.S. food supply. Adding in bycatch (sea creatures caught and
discarded--injured or dead) and feed fish, the total number jumps
substantially.
To put this in perspective, during World War II--the deadliest conflict in
human history--more than 60 million people were killed over 6 years. The
same number of animals die in support of the American food supply every ten
hours.
Number of animals killed in the world by the fishing, meat, dairy and egg industries, since you opened this webpage.
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