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Canadians Killed More Than 750 Million Animals For Food in 2015 April 28, 2016 Slaughter reports from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada reveal that we killed at least 750,409,569 land animals for food in 2015. This is an increase from previous years, mostly due to an increase in the number of chickens killed. In recent years, we’ve killed roughly 620 million chickens each year. This number jumped to 640 million in 2014 and 660 million in 2015. Here are the total number of animals slaughtered in Canada in 2015 by species:
These numbers don’t include:
Canada's red meat and livestock industry at a glance…2015 Canada’s red meat industry includes beef and veal, pork, lamb and mutton, goat, rabbit, horse, as well as venison and bison. The red meat industry had annual shipments worth $19.4 billion in 2015. April 29, 2019 Over 819 Million Land Animals Slaughtered by Canadian Meat Industry in 2018 Canadian meat industry slaughtered a record number of animals in 2018 Here are the numbers broken down by sector:
Meat chickens:
729,971,245 TOTAL: 818,728,807
Bison: 9,369 (federally) 1,517 (provincially) But these numbers don’t paint the full picture. At least 41,282,000 chicks at were killed at hatcheries in 2018, most of them male chicks who were ground up alive because they are worthless to the egg industry. An additional 1,724,000 turkey chicks were killed in turkey hatcheries. Canada also exported 5,885,837 live cows, pigs, sheep, and horses to the United States in 2018, and 17,984,215 live chickens and other birds. Millions more animals are exported by ship and air to other countries. The government has concealed horse slaughter stats for the last two years, to “respect the business confidentiality of the horse-processing industry,” so tens of thousands of horses killed are not accounted for here. (In 2016, the last year for which data is available, over 54,000 horses were slaughtered.) The government hasn’t yet released 2018 slaughter stats for deer, elk, bison, wild boars, or rabbits, but 627,303 of these animals were slaughtered in 2017. These figures also don’t include aquatic animals like fishes, lobsters, crabs, and shellfishes whose individual deaths aren’t tracked—their lives are measured in tonnes. However, we do know that in 2017, Canada killed 151,324 tonnes of farmed finned fishes (e.g., salmon and trout), and 40,074 tonnes of shellfishes (e.g., mussels and clams), accounting for millions of individual lives. A further 822,349 tonnes of ocean fishes and 29,161 tonnes of freshwater fishes were killed. (The government has not yet released 2018 figures for aquatic animals.) Other animals killed by the meat, dairy, and egg industries outside of slaughterhouses are also not accounted for in this analysis, including the millions of animals who die prematurely of illnesses and injuries on farms or during transport, and the millions of animals who are so sick and injured that they are condemned when they arrive at slaughter. Source: Canadian agri-food sector Read more on Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada Canada Slaughtered 834 Million Animals in 2019 May 13, 2020 Animal Justice https://www.animaljustice.ca/blog/canada-slaughtered-834-million-animals-in-2019 The Canadian meat industry is slaughtering more animals for food than ever before, according to government slaughter statistics analyzed by Animal Justice. In 2019, over 833 million land animals were killed at the hands of the meat industry—up drastically from 750 million in 2015. Up from 819 million in 2018, 800 million in 2017, 771 million in 2016, and 750 million in 2015. Here are the numbers broken down by sector:
Meat chickens: 747,506,691 TOTAL: 833,921,583 NOTE: This is an incomplete picture as other animals killed by the meat, dairy, and egg industries outside of slaughterhouses are also not accounted for in this analysis, including the millions of animals who die prematurely of illnesses and injuries on farms or during transport, and the millions of animals who are so sick and injured that they are condemned when they arrive at slaughter. Horses have not been included, nor are rabbits, chicks killed in hatcheries, those who are live exported, and aquatic animals. Statistics for goats have yet to be released. NB: In 2018, stats show 604,287 rabbits were slaughtered. Source: Canadian agri-food sector Comment: What an abominable portrait of Canadian society. It seems that our humanity has ceased to exist. Read more: Canadian farm animal transport laws atrocious; Health of Animals Regulations; Compromised Animals Policy; comparing the US, Europe, & Canada's transport reg's; truck fire, 1000s of chickens perish, SK piglets die in truck crash; 2019 update Gov't bows to industry |