A recent study from a Dutch team at #LeidenUniversity calculated 18 billion farmed animals die every year - discarded simply as waste.
This unfathomable number of individuals include:
-16.8 billion male chicks 🐣🚫
-402.3 million turkeys 🦃❌
-298.8 million pigs 🐷❎
-195.7 million sheep 🐑✖️
-188 million goats 🐐🙅
-74.1 million cattle 🐮🙅♂️
1/6th of all animal meat produced is thrown in the trash. This shocking statistic shows the unnecessary waste of animal life, worsens our fight against #ClimateChange, and does nothing to prevent the continual suffering of animals that are still trapped in the animal agricultural industry, awaiting their untimely fate.
For the media release see:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/11/18-billion-animals-a-year-they-do-die-but-never-end-up-on-our-plate
For the full article, published by Juliane Klaura, Gerard Breeman, and Laura Scheresee, see:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550923002579
#Vegan #Vegans #Veganism #AnimalRights