descriptive claim
Approximately 80-83 billion land animals are slaughtered annually for food (FAO), with roughly 70% raised in intensive 'factory farm' systems; an additional ~1-3 trillion finfish and shellfish are farmed or wild-caught each year.
desc_animal_suffering_scale
confidence 0.80
Warrants (2)
supports (2)
- FAOSTAT Production and Trade of Livestock Primary direct_measurementweight0.90
locator: Livestock primary production; slaughter counts
- Factory Farming in the U.S. and globally triangulationweight0.70
locator: US factory-farming share methodology