| animals slaughtered in Britain and methods used: Animals Animals/Weight per annum Method of Slaughter chickens 600 million electrical stunning and sticking chickens not known cutting carotis atery/jugular vein turkeys 35 million electrical stunning and sticking ducks 10 million electrical stunning and sticking sheep 18 million electrical stunning and sticking sheep 2 million captive bolt and sticking sheep 12 million cutting carotid atery /jugular vein pigs 14 million elactrical stuning and sticking cattle 4 million captive bolt and sticking cattle 3 million cutting carotid artery/jugular vein horses 0.05 million shooting deer 0.03 million shooting and hunting birds 5 million shooting fish (commercial) 650,000 tons asphyxia and homogenisaton angling not known asphyxia and lacerations from: http://www.hedweb.com/hillman/animpain.htm |
| animals slaughtered in Belgium: 1995: 212.727.112 1996: 232.072.359 1997: 249.041.098 1998: 275.150.571 ©Source: IVK Jaarverslag 1995-1998 (Ministerie van Sociale Zaken, Volksgezondheid en Leefmilieu) |
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| "A single dead animal is a tragedy; a million dead animals is a statistic". (Joseph Stalin, slightly adapted by: me) |
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