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Animal agriculture inflicts hideous suffering on trillions of sentient beings, and is the leading cause of rainforest loss, antibiotic resistance, global health crises, ocean degradation, species extinction, pandemics, habitat destruction, and climate change.
70B
70 billion sentient animals are confined, deprived, drugged, and mutilated in factory farms each year.
– Global Animal Slaughter Statistics And Charts. Faunalytics. 2018. Bas Sanders.
70%
70% of the world's freshwater use is directly attributed to animal agriculture production.
– World Watch Institute. 2004. State of the World 2004.
75%
75% of the world’s arable land is used for raising animals – growing animal feed, pasture and grazing.
– Foley J. A. et al. 2011. Solutions for a cultivated planet. Nature.
2500
2500 dairy cows produce the same amount of waste as a city of 411,000 people.
– "Risk Assessment Evaluation for CAFOs". 2004
2.5T
2.5 trillion sentient sea creatures are hauled out of oceans each year to be crushed and suffocated.
– "Estimating the Number of Fish Caught in Global Fishing Each Year". 2010
91%
91% of Amazon rainforest destruction is directly attributable to animal agriculture.
– Veiga J.B., et al. 2002. Cattle ranching in the Amazon. APS.
