Large-scale Livestock Farming -
Number of Slaughtered Animals
Worldwide
The large-scale livestock
farming is an abomination.
It is a cruel, inhumane practice
which attempts to reduce the
operating costs at the
expense of fair animal
treatment. As thanks for the
profits that farms are making
off of their lives, the animals
get to live very unnaturally.
They rarely see sunlight, their
sleeping conditions are poor
due to overcrowding. They are
malnourished, being fed
growth hormones to speed up
growth of meat mass, and
antibiotics to prevent
premature death due to a
weakened immune system.
They lack any meaningful
activity, being restricted in
tight pens where they cannot
roam. Their muscles and
bones atrophy due to lack of
use. Near the time of
slaughter,
some animals can not even
move, or have broken leg
bones. There is the
preconception that pigs are
dirty animals who enjoy filth.
This is an image resulting
from how they are treated in
captivity. Wild boars are quite
clean animals.
In the USA up to ten animals
are squeezed tightly one on
top of the other in metal
cages, where those on the
bottom receive the feces from
those above, which drives
them crazy if they survive the
ordeal. The consequences of
this treatment are dire. The
flesh of these tortured, doped
and undernourished and
miserable animals - after they
are butchered - is processed
and sold to the masses in
food stores around the world.
It is then bought by people
who then consume it in large
quantities on a daily basis.
The saying "you are what you
eat" is based on observed
effects, and is quite
frightening under these
circumstances.
Animals are by definition
instinct based. Their whole
bodies react in consequence
to their surroundings and to
what they experience.
Fear, pain, hunger, and doping
all create an unnatural cocktail
of hormones, toxins, and
antibiotics. These are built up
over their lives and remain
trapped in the flesh and blood
of the animal as it is
butchered. The processing
that occurs after adds more
preserving chemicals to the
mixture. Some of these are
removed during cooking, but
many remain to flood the
consumer's body.
These cause instability in
many human systems.
Hormonal imbalance, cancer,
weakened immune system,
antibiotic ineffectiveness and
other devastating chronic
consequences to the human
body are attributed to to
consumption of flesh of large-
scale livestock farming
provenance. This is done at a
massive scale.
Worldwide 85 billion fish and
other sea life are slaughtered
on a yearly basis which is the
equivalent to 2695 per second.
Similarly, for chicken: 58
billion per year or 1839 per
second.
For swine: 1.4 billion
slaughtered per year or 44.4
per second. For sheep: 517
million slaughtered per year or
16.4 per second. For cows:
300 million slaughtered per
year or 9.6 per second. These
numbers do not account for
deaths due to other man-made
causes such as pollution with
pesticides and plastic
particles.
Other animals which are
raised in large-scale farms are
ducks, geese and turkeys, and
they are also grossly
mistreated. Take for instance
ducks and geese, but first, a
question.
Would you eat an animal or
part of an animal knowing that
it had a disease? Many eat
them, knowingly or not. Foie
gras is a duck or goose liver
which is diseased.
The disease causes it to
abnormally grow up to ten
times its normal size. This is
done by force-feeding the
animals directly in the
esophagus.
This process is very painful
and can lead to stress and
injuries, as well as death.
Total Butchered Animals
Worldwide:
(4756 per second)