Every day I see posts using fanciful estimates about the number of individuals our species slaughters each year. There are even suggestions (often circulated by those seeking to claim credit – and frequently, donations) that slaughter numbers are falling.
They are not falling. The slaughter of land-based species has actually increased by almost 700,000,000 since the last available statistical year. (Statistics by FAOSTAT)
The numbers above, which average at 2,374 individuals per second(!), do not include numerous other groups including:
- Marine creatures – estimated deaths 2.7 trillion annually;
- Male chicks killed by the egg industry – currently estimated at 7.4 to 8 billion annually;
- Bees in the honey industry;
- Silk worms;
- Dogs, cats and other species slaughtered in ‘backyards’ or slaughterhouses not contributing to FAOSTAT;
- Wildlife dying from loss of habitat and climate change caused by farming other species;
- Laboratory test subjects.
Not one of these deaths is necessary.
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You see there is a problem in this world. It’s called human beings. They kill for GREED not for NEED!!!! If one examines carefully the amount of food that is thrown away in the developed? world, on a daily basis, you could feed the whole planet with this. But of course, that would not be fair to the industrialists, would it now?, or to the governments, they would miss out on serious revenue they are NOT entitled to. And so the GREED Train rolls on. Get it right for once people, do yourselves a favour. (spellcheckers NOT welcome, buy your dictionary).
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so true Pete. Greed on steroids even.
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