HOW MANY LIVES FOR OUR MEAL? EXPLORING DYNAMICS OF ANIMAL SLAUGHTERING FOR FOOD

Ioana Mihaela Balan, Teodor Ioan Trasca, Remus Gherman, Monica Ocnean, Adrian Gheorghe Firu Negoescu, Maria Roberta Tripon, Camelia Tulcan

Abstract


Global meat consumption is reaching impressive levels, with an annual production of 360 million tons. This figure is so large that it is difficult to fully understand. One way to make these numbers easier to understand is to convert them from meat weight to the actual number of animals slaughtered, moving from annual totals to daily numbers. Every day, about 900,000 cows are slaughtered. Regarding chickens, the daily number is even higher – 202 million chickens are slaughtered every day, which is 140,000 chickens per minute. As for fish, the number of fish captured daily is fraught with uncertainty, but it is clear that the numbers are huge, certainly reaching hundreds of millions each day. If people consider the suffering caused by killing these animals and attach ethical importance to that suffering, even to a small degree, the moral impact of this reality is immense.

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slaughter; capture; animal suffering; food ethics; impact on the environment

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