PATRICE GREANVILLE—Roughly 200 thousand million animals—yes, 300 billion creatures (1)—are estimated to die each year as a result of human activities ranging from factory farming to hunting, the fur garment trades, commercial exploitation of various kinds, the superexploitation of the oceans, and biomedical research. That’s more than 820 million creatures every single day, including birds, cows, and hogs, all of them highly sociable animals, and, try wrapping your mind around this figure: 34,246,575 animals per hour. Well that’s a rough approximation. No one really knows the exact number of victims, but it surely exceeds the available data.
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