300,000,000 Cattle are killed world wide each year for human consumption. In which 5.5 Million are Calves.  They are born & raised in horrid & unsuitable environments to be marketed to the world as veal.  The 4.5 million calves in Europe and 1 million calves in US annually destined to become veal are forcibly pulled away from their “need to be nursing” mothers, a.k.a. dairy cows. This is within a few hours after birth.  Lactating mothers who then produce naturally for her calf, is pumped full of hormones to increase milk production to the max, and used to produce their milk for human consumption and sale.  When lactation dwindles, they are then slaughtered for meat. Calves would need mothers milk for 6 to 12 months males are transported to be prepared to be sold to humans as veal.  Most female calves are placed in the dairy herd. When dairy production declines, they are often pushed to produce milk for about 6 years. These mother cows are also slaughtered for beef.  Some of the calves are sold slaughtered shortly after birth; they are marketed as BOB veal.  Surviving calves marketed as WHITE VEAL are chained by their neck for 16 weeks in cramped wooden crates, conditions are intolerable & unsanitary.  They are fed an anemia-inducing synthetic liquid formula, thus promoting white-coloured meat.  The industry has been approved to feed these young (newborn) animals an all-liquid milk-replacer diet that is deficient in iron and fiber and composed primarily of cheap industrial bi-products. It follows that low iron intake and total lack of exercise inhibit the calves’ ability to produce red blood cells, resulting in reduced hemoglobin concentrations and, eventually, anemia. They are deprived of their god given rights of a natural diet, water, roughage, iron, fresh air, sunshine, exercise and their mother's love and companionship.  This is standard to assist in managing the colour and texture desired by human consumers. Most veal stems from the dairy breed the Holstein-Frisian. The Holstein is the cartoon iconic & unmistakable black-and-white-patched, long-legged creature with a massive pink udder. Some industry folk would call veal a byproduct of the dairy industry, this would be correct.  With public awareness made to the cycle of cattle and the true exposure of veal, drastic declines in veal have been noticed.  However, the public lacking the knowledge or understanding the true connection of the veal calf to the dairy cow, milk consumption has hit record heights. Therefore, increasing the number of calves needing to be born to activate lactation cycles in dairy cattle females. This is to meet the supply and demand factor of milk required by public.    

Factory farmed breeding pigs or sows are impregnated continually, one litter after another. These animals are kept in cramped metal gestation crates withno room to allow them to turn around. They give birth and nurse their litter of 10-12 piglets in farrowing crates which are nearly as space deprived as the gestation crates. The natural nursing period of 11-13 weeks is cut to 2-4 weeks, so that the sows can immediately be impregnated again. More pigs is more profit.  After approximately 3 years they are sold for slaughter.  Between 18-20% of the prematurely weaned piglets die of induced stress from seperation and disease. Survivors are tagged and castrated without any form of local anesthesia.  Then placed in stacked wire cage "nurseries" and fed a synthetic milk replacer. When able to eat solid food, the piglets are transferred into over crowded pens, here they are prisoner for 6 to 7 months, when they are ready for slaughter or sold at auction.  More than  1,200,000,000 pigs and piglets are butchered each year worldwide.

suffocate, then ground up for chicken or other animal feed. The females have the tips of their beaks seared off with a hot iron to prevent stress-induced cannibalism. They are crammed 5-7 birds into wire-mesh cages the size of a newspaper page stacked on top of one another. The birds must stand on a sloping wire-mesh floor, which cuts their feet, entangles their toes painfully, all the while the wire-mesh walls rub off their feathers and bruise their skin. When the birds are about 15 months old, they are 'force-molted' - kept in low lighting and fed a low-calorie diet for seven to 14 days, which stresses their systems and increases egg production for about six more months. They are thanked for their hard work by being sent to slaughter. Layer Hens have a job to lay eggs.  Egg Laying Hens : After the initial one-year egg-laying cycle is up for hens, one of three things usually happens: 1) They are auctioned off to the slaughterhouse where their used and abused, brittle-boned bodies can be shredded up for use in lower grade chicken products like pot pies or pet food.
2) If hen replacement costs are especially high, they are "force molted." This is where the hens are kept in the dark without water and starved for as much as 18 days, all in an effort to shock their bodies into another egg-laying cycle. 3) They are paid a visit by the local feed supply co-op and on site and while fully conscious, are thrown into a portable grinder and ground up.
On the other hand, hatchery-born male chicks are useless to the industry because they don't lay eggs, so they are simply discarded at birth.  Thrown away in trash cans and die of suffocation. Others get to become fertilizer and are ground up alive and dismembered while conscious. How many? 500,000 per day. (five hundred thousand per day.)

Death for a broiler chicken is a predictable experience. Transported to the kill plant in cages and placed upside down on a conveyor belt mechanism, the birds are first dipped into electrically charged water to stun, but not kill, them. This just paralyzes them and twitches them out. This is for the next part of their journey.  Their throats are slit with a mechanical blade. Again killing is not yet achieved, the idea is to keep their heart pumping so all of the blood can drain out of their neck as they continue through this unbelievably inhumane process. Finally, they hit the scalding water tank where, if they're not dead yet they end life submerged in boiling water, often fully conscious.  One year of laying over 250 eggs in this environment. They can also look forward to a host of ailments and syndromes as a result of this unnatural level of egg productivity.
Chickens raised for meat are crowded into large dark sheds that hold as many as 30,000 birds, with each getting less than a square foot of space. Chickens have a natural instinct for nesting, they should atleast be given this right - but no, it gets much more brutal. They attempt to stake space by pecking at one another, chickens are routinely de-beaked so they won't harm eachother. Debeaking process, which involves cutting through bone and cartilage with a hot blade, is extremely painful as no anesthetic measures are taken for it not to be the chicken suffers yet again.  They are bred to gain weight quickly, many birds are seriously overweight and tend to be crippled by their own weight leaving them unable to walk. They are then unable to get to food and water or to defend themselves from the other birds who trample them on the way to the feeding station. Over time, the building fills with the stench of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and methane.  After seven weeks, the chickens are transported to slaughter.   

It is difficult to establish a solid or exact number of chickens killed annually world wide. If you take into consideration the male chicks killed at birth (which must be taken into consideration) the number doubles. The UK seems to be the least animal & wildlife statistically crippled source of all. Estimates say that over 70 billion chickens are killed worldwide for consumption.  Of these, about 30 billion chickens are broilers, 5 billion are egg-layers, plus tens of millions of breeders. This total doubles when male chicks (killed at hatching) are added. Three countries produce over half the world's broilers: the US, China and Brazil (in that order). Yet, the number of broilers is increasing by about a billion per year.  More than 300 million factory turkeys are raised under similar conditions, then killed for food in the U.S.  

Although obvious, much of the human race consistently seems to forget that we are every day, invading the natural habitat of this planet’s creatures.  Everyday we lose square miles of jungle,    square miles of forest, we are polluting the waters and driving the planets temperatures up causing global melting of the ice that so many depend on.  Adding insult to injury we not only invade their habitat we host mass slaughters world wide destroying billions of animals each year.

Primates: 3,000 Gorillas and 4,000 Chimpanzees: Each year, roughly 3,000 gorillas, 4,000 chimpanzees are slaughtered in Africa for bush meat. This devastating practice is enabled and greatly encouraged by the

The federal Wildlife Services agency, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kills 2 million wild animals per year overkill of 2.4 million in 2007 including endangered species.  Although known to negatively impact the already crucial & fragile ecological profile of our earths species, decisions are made upon the request of cattle ranchers, hunters, and municipalities and uses such tactics as poisoning, shooting, beheading and burning. The poisoning method in particular results in the indiscriminate killing of many "non-target" individuals and species.

Canada holds the record for highest numbers – hands down. We, (a Canadian) slaughter on average anywhere from 80,000-380,000 harp seals per year in the festival of baby seal blood on the ice floes of the Canadian East Coast.  Total Allowable Catches are always in the high end, it’s seals & pups available and

market demands that determine the numbers actually slaughtered. The hunt was suspended in 1984 to be resumed ten years later.  Numbers are devastating.  When external pressure from protesting nations and organizations clamped down on sealing countries, for beating newborn seals to death. Exposing the greed and contempt to make money from their fur, culls would then be the order of the day as fishing industries were suffering not of course due to over fishing, or ruining the sea floor bed - but the seals were or are eating all of the cod.  Yet scientific evidence has been collected showing validation that excessive over fishing, habitat destruction and the extreme onset of global warming has brought about the collapse.  No consideration taken seals are in fact known to eat the predatory fish that eat cod. Kill mass numbers of seals means killing the majority of the cod’s defensive team. Cod is approximately 2% of a seals diet.  The Canadian Fisheries and Oceans e few months back in honor of World Oceans Day had announced “two Areas of Interest for potential designation as Marine Protected Areas under the Oceans Act” as well as three new National Wildlife Areas. a National Park into a Seal Nursery Holocaust.  Minister’s plans are in debate to slaughter over 220,000 gray seals which currently live on Sable Island. This includes pregnant females, males, young pups and nursing whitecoat pups. All to meet their untimely demise by means of shooting, clubbing, the use of heavy loaders, mobile crematoriums and modified tree harvesting equipment (wood chippers). The fishing industry has been lobbying the DFO for a seal cull on the island, arguing that seals, not humans, are responsible for their slumping catches of cod. The grey seal population on the fragile island, a whelping ground for the world's largest grey seal colony.  Seals already suffer a natural mortality rate of 30% per year, this is due to climate change and global warming.  When culls are protested due to unstable environmental factors with climate change- then it is then when claims are stated the money is a vital resource.  Well of course it is –WHEN YOU BLOW 13 MILLION DOLLARS TO APPEAL THE European Seal Pelt Ban when they clearly don’t want the fur! 

Peru: Seal Hunting is Illegal in Peru.  Peru banned seal hunting This has not stopped a group of self appointed wildlife killers.  The culls are sporadic & illegally self organized, carried out by fishermen and willing participants in order to make a quick buck of their fur or in other instances simply the genitals of males. The killing of sea lions and fur seals in order to sell their genitals as aphrodisiacs for the Asian market of traditional medicines is another growing threat. 8.57% of the cases of dead, stranded sea lions analyzed by ORCCAMM (see above) had their genitals cut off. Between September and October 2002, one of the biggest illegal killings of sea lions had happened in recent years in Peru. Fishermen killed 147 sea lions on San Gallan Island in the National Reserve of Paracas, only to cut off their genitals and leave the rest of the bodies unused. The demand for traditional medicines makes this kind of illegal killing an international problem. In 2005, for example, 35 sea lions were killed on the Island of San Cristobel, one of the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, in order to extract their genitals.

Namibia: In Africa there are plans to cull 1 million baby fur seals over the next 10 years.  There is overwhelming evidence that the Namibian Seal pup slaughter is NOT a population control cull, nor are there any efforts toward conservation of the endangered species.
In 2006, Namibian government stated the fur seal population was “officially healthy, thriving, and over-populated,” and issued a whopping 85,000 TAC kill quota to repeatedly beat & club, stab, and maim nursing seal pups in the birthing grounds from July to November. Shortly into the hunt season, the public reported mass starvation, low weight, abnormal growth and mass die off from starvation. Hence: this differs from previous reports of a healthy thriving seal population.  The seal population was lower than 13 years earlier, but confusingly the kill quota increased to 85,000. Extending the seal hunting season to begin in July rather than August, more opportunity to lay a beating and even younger pups would be included. In this season, the sealers have to stop clubbing and bury 900 seals per day, dead from starvation, in beach graves that cover them up. But did the government count the dead in the so-called population control cull? NO! They went back and finished the starving pups. Inhumanely such as is any seal hunt, bashing their heads in. Then they clubbed the older seals, which is against their own government regulations. Death for the older seals is more difficult, and is done by continuous bludgeoning. Now, you’ve already seen the horrific baby seals clubbing, where the men stampede the seals, block the seals from the safety of the sea, herd the pregnant mothers and nursing babies then swing a club at one seal pup then another, and swing again wildly into the entire group, and slowly through repeated stressing, causing the scared and severely concussed pups to vomit, the mothers try to protect, and the sealers continue to repeatedly club.  Still breathing the men proceed to cutting off penises, flippers and skinning them alive. The government takes into account no population loss of the already the already dead ones in the “quota for wildlife management and conservation”.  In 2007, quota to 80,000 just 5,000 less than the previous mass starvation year, and by day 22 into the season, there was not a single seal left alive to be seen. Now that’s Conservation & Wildlife management!

Botswana, Africa: South Africa's elephant population has ballooned from 8,000 in 1995, when killing was banned under international pressure, to more than 20,000. The national parks service said that had there not been a policy of killing for population control between 1967 and 1994, the current population would have been 80,000.  South Africa is proposing culling elephants even though their population is low in other countries, elephants are classed as ‘vulnerable' worldwide, and trade in ivory has been banned since 1989 to try to combat poaching.  Considering Namibia sits neighbor to Botswana wouldn’t it be nice if they learned how to respect the amazing creatures placed on their continent.

United States: In the US, aerial gunning takes place.  $100 million a year federal program called Wildlife Services, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agricultures. In 2006, Wildlife Services killed 35,505 animals by aerial gunning. The animals included badgers, bobcats, red foxes, grey wolves and even domestic housecats. In 2006, Wildlife Services in Nevada reported 4,665 coyotes killed through aerial-gunning, the highest such total for any state.

PET & HOMELESS DOG CULL, CHINA: Over 36,000 dogs have been killed in central China.  See a dog beat him to death in the middle of the street with a club - where he stands. Whether he is viscous or not, whether he is infected with rabies or not, whether they are someone’s pet out for a stroll or not. The indiscriminate cull in Hanzhong, Shanxxi Province targeted both stray animals and pets from the streets.  The city authorities claimed to be running a dog vaccination program. In reality this has reached a very tiny minority of dogs. Instead local people have been paid to club dogs to death, believing it to be a solution to rabies.  Simple justification for wanting their fur, and sadly the animals who die are the lucky ones as it has been made visually evident over and over again that many animals, cats, dogs and which ever are very much alive as they are skinned.  Reason- adrenaline in the animal rises from fear and pain affects the toughness of the skin or the softness of the fur.  Sadder yet, Canada condones this as the furs are imported to us!

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OLD MCDONALD SHAME ON YOU - FUR FARMS: Worldwide more than 45 million animals, including raccoons, dogs, rabbits, foxes, mink, and chinchillas, are raised in cages and killed each year for their fur. Not only are cage-raised animals killed inhumanely, but they experience terminal suffering from the time of birth. Visualized as nothing but potential dollar signs, they spend their short lives in foul conditions no living creature should ever have to know, EVER.  Lives spent caged, not to know daylight or exercise, hungry and often starved to near death, abused and thrown around, injuries aren’t warranted vet services, lacking in life’s most basic needs, neglected animals raised on fur farms are killed and harvested by cruel methods that preserve their pelt, as to not devalue it by an means necessary.  Calf leather comes from animals killed at just 2 weeks old.  And most roughly 83% are done so in completely inhumane and cruel ways, only adding to their tragic story further. Say NO To Fur, Wear your Faux Fur and Wear It PROUD!

 

 

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IF AN ANIMAL GETS TRAPPED IN THE FOREST, AND THERE’S NO ONE AROUND TO HEAR HIM. DOES HE STILL MAKE A NOISE?:

 

Millions upon millions of wild animals, including bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynx, raccoons, and wolves, bears, foxes, elk, dear, moose, suffer and die in traps each year. Countless dogs and cats, deer, birds and other animals including threatened and endangered animals are also injured and killed each year by the indiscriminate traps. Traps, including steel-jaw leg hold traps, body-gripping traps, and wire neck snares, are inhumane devices that inflict great pain and suffering.  Animals time after time are left for sometimes days left to suffer. Eventually trapped animals desperate to be free are over come with instinct and chew off their own limbs in hopes of finding freedom.  These unfortunate creatures don’t realize this will only lead to bleeding to death, serious infection or become prey to a stronger predator. Any way you cut it- there’s no happy ending here.

 

 

 

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COMPANION ANIMALS – Yes Cats & Dogs Killed For Fur :

 

In 1998 an well conducted investigation by The Humane Society International shone a bright light on the international fur industry's best kept secret: Asian nations and the widespread slaughter of companion animals—domestic dogs and cats being brutally slaughtered for the manufacture of clothing, accessories, and trinkets. Investigators witnessed firsthand the slaughter of domestic animals deemed companion animals such as dogs and cats. The offences taking place in China and other neighboring nations.  Man’s best friend and the lovable felines to most who are a part of the family, being used for useless objects and nothing short of what faux fur could yet again easily and satisfactorily provide.  Many of these animals are raised in cold, unsanitary breeding compounds. Some are strays. Others are obviously pets who were lost or stolen. Killing methods are disgusting, inhumane and excruciating for these innocent animals. Dogs—German shepherds, chows, and mixed breeds—are bludgeoned or bled to death. Cats are often strangled by wire nooses.  Fur trim lined gloves, collars, hair accessories, boot trim, hand bags, broaches, hair bands, slippers, you get the picture.

 

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SEAL FUR PELTS:

 

6000 Seal hunters local to the Canadian East Coast gather and with Government Support, approval & indirect funding partake in an annual event that has been a commercial seal haulocast in the mutilation of hundreds of thousands of newborn & juvenile seal pups in unspeakable and inhumane ways.  This localized gathering of club & hakapik wielding men is an annual event viewed by those participants seemingly with no differences than the game wak-a-mole found at the local county fall fair.  Not to be mistaken for traditional Inuit hunting for survival, necessities and family sustenance which account for 2% of seals killed in Canada, Inuit hunters waste nothing of every animal they harvest, the practices in which they hunt are based on principals in which they appreciate their catch, are humane hunters and don’t play hockey with their heads. (from sealer turned author Michael J. Dwyer, of the book – Over The Side Mickey; A sealers first hand account about 1997 Nfld. seal hunt VISIT us on FB to read more about this)

 

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LAMBS WOOL:

Newborn & Fetal Karakul Lambs

Also called "astrakhan," "broadtail," or "Persian wool," Karakul lambs fur comes from lambs who were killed as newborns. Many karakul lambs are slaughtered when they are only 1 or 2 days old .  This because their unique, rich textured highly prized curly fur begins to unwind and straighten within three days after birth.  Broadtail is fur of a karakul lamb fetus' hide—which is called. A higher valued fur product in the fur industry.  Valued for its exceptional smoothness—the mother's throat is cut and her abdomen slashed open to remove the developing lamb. A mother typically gives birth to three lambs before being slaughtered along with her fourth fetus, usually 15 to 30 days before he or she is due to be born. As many as 4 million karakul lambs are slaughtered for their fur every year.  

Please NOTE from HSUS report as per undercover low key investigation to a Karakul Fur Farm: Garments made of fetal karakul lambs (known as "broadtail"), which the fur industry claims are crafted from animals born prematurely due to accident or exposure. In March 2000, investigators with The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) toured a karakul sheep farm near Bukhara, in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, and found that pregnant ewes are in fact routinely slaughtered for these fetal pelts. Graphic videotape shot at the farm shows a pregnant ewe held down, her throat slit and her stomach slashed wide so that a worker could remove the developing fetus—the "raw material" for coats, vests, and other broadtail fashions. What's more, contrary to the industry's claims that karakul lamb fur is merely a byproduct of meat production, HSUS investigators videotaped newborn lambs displayed as "samples" of pelt colors before being sent to their death. The pelts were saved, the tiny carcasses discarded as trash.

 

 

 

 

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 ANGORA: Angora rabbits are beautiful plush and the softest of the rabbit species.  The bunnies are strapped to a board for shearing as they tend to want to keep their fur and will kick with the force of  scared and stressed animal in defensive mode. The commercial shearing clippers snag & bite into their soft fur hosting flesh, with bloody results. Returned bare to cold wire cages with no insulating or protective items. Angoras suffer a great deal more on their delicate foot pads.  Ulcerated feet from wire cages is a preventable, yet another addition to their misery.

 

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GOOSE DOWN:

 

Down is the soft layer of feathers closest to birds' skin, primarily in the chest region. These feathers are highly valued because they do not have quills. While most down & feathers are removed from birds during slaughter, geese in breeding flocks and those raised for meat and foie gras may be plucked while they are alive.  Ducks and geese are strung up by their necks, their legs are tied, and their feathers are plucked out. The struggling birds often sustain injuries during plucking and often die as a result of the struggle due to fear and pain. Survivors are returned to their cages until they are ready to be plucked again. This process begins when the animals are 9 weeks old and continues repeating in six-week cycles until the reproduction of quality feathers diminish, birds are then slaughtered.

 

 

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WHALING & DOLPHIN HUNTING: Whales are currently under threat from a wide range of human activities, despite there being a moratorium in place against commercial whaling for over 20 years.  Over 1500 whales have been hunted each year since 1996 although this is forbidden under international law after whaling was banned. Whaling is taking place right now and the numbers are increasing yearly. Norway continues to hunt whales under objection to the IWC moratorium against commercial whaling. Japan has been whaling under the shady umbrella of 'scientific research', killing hundreds of whales each year and conveniently selling the processed whale meat openly on the market. In 2005, Japan doubled its 'scientific whaling' quotas in the Southern Hemisphere and to include the hunting of humpback and endangered fin whales. While Japan has promised to not hunt humpbacks for now, over 14 fin whales have been killed since 2005.   Iceland has submitted a formal objection to the IWC moratorium against commercial whaling. Although claiming it would not undertake commercial whaling before 2006, Iceland has begun its own 'scientific whaling' program. How are the whales any better off when all it takes is research painted on the side of the whaling ship.  No more research, we know enough, STOP THE RESEARCH.  Scientific whaling is a tool of the past, and modern science is needed in the modern world.

 

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SEA LIFE BY-CATCH:

 

The global fishing industry's many problems include the devastating issue of bycatch.  Yearly, billions of ocean animals are caught unintentionally and thrown back, dead or dying, including 100 million sharks and rays; approximately 300,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises, 250,000 endangered turtles, and hundreds of thousands of birds. Shrimp fisheries are perhaps the greatest concern. Commonly catching multiple species of sea life, at rates in upwards of more than 80 percent bycatch. Numerous species are facing extinction because of fishing and bycatch. An estimated 300,000 cetaceans (whales, dolphins and seals) die as bycatch each year, because they are unable to escape when caught in nets. Birds dive for the bait planted on the longline end, swallow it hook and all and are pulled underwater and drowned. Habitat devastation from fishing industries is exampled by is a destructive way of 'strip mining' the ocean floor, harvesting the species that live there. As well as the target fish species, this also results in bycatch of commercially unwanted animals like starfish.  Another variant is known as beam-trawling, where heavy nets and chains are dragged across the sea-bed. The devastation that results is often irreparable.

 

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ANIMALS IN TESTING LABS & EXPERIMENTS:

 

Despite all this suffering in the name of determining safety for humans, as of 2002, more than 50 drugs tested on animals and approved by the FDA as safe had been taken off the market or relabeled because they had caused serious illnesses and death in humans. The FDA itself estimated in 2006 that 92 percent of drugs that pass animal testing fail in human clinical trials.  But still they continue. Over 100,000,000 animals die for unnecesary animal product testing, every year.

 

 

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PUPPY MILL INDUSTRY: 

 

Most pet store puppies and 80 percent of the American Kennel Club's business) come from puppy mills, mass-breeding operations in which ill, suffering dogs are kept in deplorable conditions. They breed between 2 and 4 million puppies each year.

 

NEGLECTED AND FORGOTTEN:

 

Every year, 6 to 8 million dogs and cats enter shelters, and 3 to 4 million shelter dogs and cats are killed.

 

Animals feel, clearly they show emotion, most are surprisingly quite intellectual who can cry or in their own form shout. They can be loving or show anger, many hold values in a greater sense than those that butcher them.  Animals were put here for a reason, and it wasn't to be used & abused by humans. All life has a place in the ecosystem.  When humans interfere with the laws of nature by selfishly making changes to the food chain whether in the ocean or not, we see a rippled effect of changes. Most often the changes are long term and hard hitting, if not altogether permanent and completely devastating.

Numbers of destroyed animals per year by means of simple cruelty, torture, abuse, starvation, etc., are not listed here.  It’s difficult to come up with accurate numbers for those issues since most are unreported and done behind closed doors.  It is a sick world we are living these days, and I believe if people don’t change their level of respect and compassion for everything living and this planet which is our home, complete self destruction of will be closer than we think. 

 

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Here are estimates of the numbers of animals people eat, wear and experiment on. This is a limited selection as the kind of animals and their numbers are vast and estimates are not always available.

Chickens 70,000,000,000

 

Pigs  1,200,000,000                Beef Cattle  300,000,000

 

Fish 132,000,000 tonnes        Meat Consumption 250,000,000 tonnes 40 kg per human

 

Farmed mink: 30,000,000+   Farmed fox: 5,000,000+         

 

Wild fur-bearers: millions

 

Experimental Animals over + 100,000,000

 

Rodents species as mice, rats & hamsters

have no to little data on them, for numbers

therefore are not reflected in these numbers.             A Day in the life Discussions & COmments on FB

 

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