1.2 Billion / Year (UK)
Est. 3.5 Billion / Year (UK Demand)
Est. 25 Million / Year (Human Food Only)
Animal deaths occurring in real-time since you arrived.
The crop counter excludes the 75,000,000 deaths associated with producing feed for the animal agriculture industry.
It is often argued that "crop deaths" (field mice, voles, ground birds) make plant-based diets harmful. However, this ignores the inefficiency of the middleman.
A plant-based shift reduces incidental deaths by eliminating the need for massive feed monocultures.
Over 1,000,000,000 are birds raised in intensive indoor systems to meet national demand for cheap chicken.
Chickens Indoors
Pigs Indoors
Ducks Indoors
Turkeys Indoors
Overall, an estimated 85% of land animals in the UK spend their lives in intensive indoor systems.
Lowered into CO2 pits causing 15-30 seconds of extreme burning and panic before unconsciousness. This is the "standard" UK method for ~88% of pigs.
Shackled upside-down by conscious legs and dragged through an electrified water bath for stunning before mechanical throat cutting.
Forced into a narrow stun box; a pneumatic metal bolt is fired into the brain to cause instant trauma before the animal is hoisted and bled.