In the US in 2008 the number of cattle, pigs, chickens, layer hens, broiler chickens and turkeys slaughtered in total was 18,573,833,400. That is 35,338 animals slaughtered every minute in the US....
By... what? Humans? Other animals? Natural causes? By far the biggest cause of death of animals is other animals.... foxes eating field mice, etc.The number is enormous, but not as enormous as the...