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- The Top 20 Chicken Producing States - A-Z Animals
The United States produces 8 5 billion chickens a year The top three chicken-producing states are all in the South, and each harvests over one billion chickens per year:
- How Many Chickens Are Killed Every Year? - Sentient Media
The average person eats almost twice as much meat now as they did in the mid-20th century, and this is almost entirely due to a steep rise in global chicken consumption: Between 1961 and 2021, annual per-capita chicken consumption skyrocketed from 2 86 kg to 16 96 kg — an increase of nearly 500 percent Every year, 75 billion chickens around the world are slaughtered for meat by the poultry
- Exposing the secret suffering of chickens farmed for meat
The modern industrially-farmed meat chicken is the result of extreme genetic selection Each chicken is expected to reach its slaughter weight in around six weeks – a weight it would naturally take around three months for chickens to reach This rapid growth can cause severe health problems, such as painful lameness and strain to the animal’s heart and lungs As a result of these health
- Factory Farming Statistics You Need To Know In 2025
Over 60 billion broiler chickens make it to our dinner table, cooked in every way possible Since most factory chicken farms and slaughterhouses use the latest technology to extract every penny from chicken production, we electrocute 140,000 chickens every minute, which equates to more than 2,000 broilers every second
- New Zealand Poultry - AkoVet
Virtually all commercial poultry production in New Zealand is focused on raising chickens for either meat or for eggs As of January 2024, there are approximately 165 broiler farms that produce about 120 million meat chickens each year and approximately 170 layer farms across New Zealand that keep about 4 million birds that produce over 1 billion eggs every year
- Animal Welfare - Our World in Data
Only considering farmed fish and relying on the midpoint estimate published by the Sentience Institute, the number of killed fish each year is 77 billion This would mean the number of killed farmed fish is similar to the number of killed chickens
- Global Chicken Slaughter Statistics And Charts - Faunalytics
More than 66 billion chickens were killed for food in 2016 Our charts based on United Nations data show the main countries and 55-year trends for total and per capita slaughter of chickens
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