“A modern slaughterhouse is a disassembly line of conveyors and shackles, bolt guns and electric prods, hooks and hoists. Animals arrive in one piece, breathing and fearing, only to be systematically stunned, hung, slashed, skinned, drawn and dismembered into a sum of tradable parts.” DeathSufferingKillingVegetarianVeganAnimalsVegetarianismVeganismSlaughter Author:Jo-Anne McArthur
“Some people express abhorrence at eating meat, yet make an exception for fish and other 'seafood' to remain a part of their diet. Fish, it seems to them, 'don't count.' Nor, it turns out, do they count when it comes to compiling the daily toll of animals slaughtered: cows, chickens, pigs and sheep are counted individually – fish – on the other hand, have their lives measured by the tonne. But even by weight, theirs is a colossal number – over 150million tonnes killed for human consumption every year in the first decades of the 21st century.” DeathSufferingFishingVegetarianVeganVegetarianismVeganismFish Book:Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene Source: Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene
“No set of numbers can tell the whole story, but when it comes to the annual slaughter of farmed animals, the numbers have such an oppressive weight that they can easily overwhelm the stories behind them: 69 billion chickens, 1.5 billion pigs, 656 million turkeys, 574 million sheep, 479 million goats and 302 million cows. In total, 72.5 billion farmed animals were killed for human consumption in 2018. Ten times the global human population, slaughtered every year. Nor does this number include the ducks, rabbits, horses, geese, kangaroos, bison and other land animals killed so that we can eat their meat, And what about the fishes?” DeathSufferingKillingVegetarianVeganAnimalsVegetarianismVeganismSlaughter Book:Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene Source: Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene
“47 days: average slaughter age of broiler chickens in the United States. In the European Union it is 42 days. Depending on the breed, the natural lifespan of a chicken is up to 11 years.” AnimalMeatVegetarianVeganExploitationAnimal WelfareFactory FarmingChickenIndustrial FarmingLife Cut Short Book:Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene Source: Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene