- Economic costs of biological invasions in the United States
The wide-reaching ecological impacts of individual invasive species in the United States have been correlated with marked economic impacts For instance, zebra mussels cost businesses and communities over $5 billion in the first 10 years after invasion alone (Boelman et al , 1997) and emerald ash borers have been estimated to cost $10 billion over a decade in lost forest resources (Kovacs et
- The surprisingly complicated math of how many wild animals . . .
That uncertainty stands in stark contrast to counts of animals consumed as meat and product: in the United States, an estimated 40 million cattle, 120 million pigs, and 9 billion chickens are killed each year
- Numbers of farmed fishes slaughtered each year
According to our study, published in a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Animal Welfare, global numbers of farmed finfishes killed for food annually increased nine-fold between 1990 and 2019, when they reached 120,000,000,000 or 120 billion (range 78-170 billion) The most numerous species include the pond loach, Nile tilapia and common carp
- Livestock and climate change: impact of livestock on climate . . .
Although this growth is slower than 10 years ago (1 24% vs 1 10% per year), with an average increase of 83 million people annually, global population will reach about 8 6 billion in 2030 and 9 8 billion in 2050
- Poultry - Wikipedia
Sixteen billion birds are raised annually for consumption, more than half of these in industrialised, factory-like production units [58] Global broiler meat production rose to 84 6 million tonnes in 2013 The largest producers were the United States (20%), China (16 6%), Brazil (15 1%) and the European Union (11 3%) [59]
- Australia’s Cats Kill Two Billion Animals Annually. Here’s . . .
Every year, feral cats kill 1 4 billion native Australian animals—around the same number that died in the catastrophic 2019-20 bushfires when more than 73,000 square miles burned
- Estimating the burden of foodborne diseases
Around the world unsafe food is known to cause more than 200 acute and chronic diseases In 2015, WHO published the first-ever estimates of global burden of foodborne diseases, which indicated that the 31 hazards examined were responsible for 600 million cases of foodborne diseases in 2010, resulting in 33 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), including 420 000 deaths worldwide
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