How many animals get slaughtered every day?

Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by skinner927 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:10AM (#37685143)

No, it’s 202 million chickens every day. It’s 140k every minute.

There’s 300M people in the US. Think of how many chickens you need to slaughter a day.

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Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by jjallen on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:10AM (#37685453)

Americans don’t eat .66 chickens a day. If we truly slaughter that many then they are feeding other things too.

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Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by mfitton on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:14AM (#37685486)

I think it's confusing because person 1 was talking about America, person 2 was talking globally. That said, I eat dangerously close to .66 of a chicken every day.

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Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by snapplebobapple on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:02AM (#37685835)

You should try switching to beef. Killing one animal feeds my family delicious meat for pretty much a whole year. If we round your diet down to half a chicken a day my family would have to cause 730 chickens to be killed each year if we ate it instead of our one beef cow.

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Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by bfung on Thursday September 28, 2023 @01:56AM (#37685787)

If chickens were people, 2/3 of the US population would get slaughtered everyday. crazy.

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Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by truculent on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:08AM (#37685886)

Ah, yes you’re right. Thanks. That’ll teach me to read an article before I’ve had a my coffee.

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Re:How many animals get slaughtered every day? by defrost on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:11AM (#37685901)

The underlying data is from the UN Food and Agriculture database - it's WORLD consumption not just central north american.

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