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That's the number of land animals that were killed globally through farming since you opened this website. That is 78.3 billion per year.

That was 1 second ago

And so many others...

What about fish?

The number of fish that are killed each year is difficult to measure. Captured fish is measured in weight, rather than count. Roughly 175 million tonnes of fish are caught every year. Estimates put this somewhere between 1 and 2.5 trillion fish. That is more than 15 times the number of all land animals combined.

Fish

1.5 trillion per year

171.2 million per hour

47.565 since you got here.

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Lobsters

270 million per year

30.8 thousand per hour

9 since you got here.

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Sharks

80 million per year

9.1 thousand per hour

3 since you got here.

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And so many others...

What about insects?

Insects are a difficult measure. Their large numbers and tiny size make it tough to get accurate measurements. Their wellbeing is difficult to evaluate as there is little research on the emotional and physical capacity of insects. None the less all sorts of insects are actively farmed in huge numbers.

Bees

1.3 trillion per year

148.4 million per hour

41.223 since you got here.

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Crickets

400 billion per year

45.7 million per hour

12.684 since you got here.

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Mealworms

300 billion per year

34.2 million per hour

9.513 since you got here.

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Black Soldier Flies

200 billion per year

22.8 million per hour

6.342 since you got here.

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And so many others...

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Sources

Various sources were used for each animal. When numbers differed the average was taken, depending on which most sourced seemed to agree on. When ranges were given the lower end of the range was used.

Fish: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/global-industrial-fishing-footprint-spd, https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/overfishing, https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2022/11/more-than-100000-fishing-related-deaths-occur-each-year-study-finds, https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6148

Bees: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Countries-Regions/International-Statistics/Data-Topic/AgricultureForestryFisheries/Bees.html, https://www.statista.com/topics/5090/honey-market-worldwide/, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

Crickets: https://rethinkpriorities.org/publications/insects-raised-for-food-and-feed, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-50-million-crickets-harvested-a-week-become-food-2021-4?international=true&r=US&IR=T

Mealworms: https://rethinkpriorities.org/publications/insects-raised-for-food-and-feed, https://bootstrapbee.com/smallholding/is-mealworm-farming-profitable, https://www.sciencegate.app/document/10.3920/jiff2021.0029

Black Soldier Flies: https://rethinkpriorities.org/publications/welfare-considerations-for-farmed-black-soldier-flies-hermetia-illucens, https://rethinkpriorities.org/publications/insects-raised-for-food-and-feed

Chickens: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/takeextinctionoffyourplate/pdfs/ChickenFactsheet.pdf, https://epar.evans.uw.edu/research/environmental-implications-livestock-chickens, https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day, https://www.al.org.au/how-many-chickens-die-every-year

Ducks: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/animals-slaughtered-for-meat?facet=metric&uniformYAxis=0, https://www.barnsanctuary.org/the-barn-blog/learn-about-ducks, https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/442854/introduction-to-commercial-duck-farming.pdf

Pigs: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day, https://www.roysfarm.com/pig-farming/, https://faunalytics.org/global-animal-slaughter-statistics-charts-2022-update/, https://www.sinergiaanimalinternational.org/single-post/slaughterhouses

Rabbits: https://www.ciwf.org.uk/farm-animals/rabbits/#:~:text=keep%20them%20safe.-,Rabbit%20farming%20today,in%20China%20(FAOSTAT%202017).., https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-animals-are-killed-for-food-every-day/, https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL

Geese:

Turkeys:

Sheep: https://www.peta.org.au/issues/clothing/cruelty-wool/environmental-hazards-wool-production/, https://foreverfarms.org/regenerative-sheep-farming/, https://sentientmedia.org/sheep-farming/, https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day