Vegan Easy Booklet References

83 billion land animals slaughtered each year:
UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) statistics: 2022. It was 80 billion in 2019.
Trillions of water animals slaughtered each year:
Fish Count Org
10% of water animals are fed back to fish in aquaculture and land animals: FAO – The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture
– Global fish production – estimated to have reached about 179 million tonnes in 2018.
– 18 million tonnes – used to produce fishmeal and fish oil. (Fishmeal and fish oil are fed back to fish in aquaculture and to land animals in the livestock sector.) 18/179 => just over 10% of fish caught fed back to fish and land animals

More than 5 million pigs raised for slaughter in Australia each year (5,148,928 from Jul 2019 to Jun 2020):
Australian Bureau of Statistics (retrieved last in 2021) from the table ‘Pigs slaughtered and pork produced – seasonally adjusted’
Piglets are sold when five to six months old after they are weaned, and slaughtered up to about 310 days old (approx. 10 months):
Aussie Pig Farmers – Reproduction
Most pigs are stunned in CO2 gas chambers, where they suffer horrifically:
Watch Pig Truth
Aussie Pig Farmers – Abattoir

75 billion chickens slaughtered for human consumption each year:
UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) statistics: 2022. It was 72 billion in 2019.

Can live for 20 years, yet…:
ALV – Issues/Cows
Desexed, dehorned and hot-iron branded without any pain relief:
MLA, 1-Castrating and Spaying, 2-Dehorning and Disbudding, and 3-Branding
Feedlots are now widespread:
Feedlots Australia

Dairy cows are routinely artificially impregnated:
Dairy Australia – artificial insemination info and video
Clinical mastitis etc:
Dairy Australia – clinical mastitis
Reared for veal:
Dairy Australia – bobby calves
After approximately seven years…:
Meat and Livestock Australia – culling
Cows are sent to slaughter, in some cases while pregnant:
Department of Primary Industries, NSW

Sheep experience a wide range of feelings:
Research published in Animal Welfare journal
Over 28 million lambs and sheep are slaughtered every year in Australia:
Australian Bureau of Statistics – Jul 2019 to Jun 2020
Most sheep are killed around 4-12 months of age:
Farm Transparency Project
10-15 million lambs:
ALV – Winter lambing article
Mutilation:
Agriculture Victoria

1 in 4 farmed fish exhibit behaviours and brain chemistry nearly identical to those of severely stressed and depressed humans:
Study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal
90% depletion of fish species by 2050:
Stanford article about the study published in Science
90% of fisheries classified as overfished or fully exploited:
UN Conference on Trade and Development article
38 million tonnes of bycatch:
World Wildlife Fund Bycatch Factsheet

About 350,000 animals suffer and die for the sake of beauty products every year (estimate was 500,000/year in 2020):
HSUS – Ending Cosmetics Animal Testing
Australia – ban on cosmetic testing on animals has been in effect since July 2020:
Australian Government – Dept of Health
In 2017, over 20 million animals were experimented on in Australia:
Humane Research Australia – 2017 Statistics
95% of drugs tested ‘successfully’ on animals fail in human trials:
PETA – animal experiments
Alternatives to animal testing:
Dr. Roopali Somani, pharmacologist

Leather goods valued over US$242 billion worldwide. (Was US$400 billion in 2020):
Grand View Research
Leather – bad for the environment:
– Global Fashion Agenda – Pulse 2017 report
– ALV – 17 Reasons To Go Leather Free #13
10-15 million lambs:
ALV – Winter lambing article
1/4 methane emissions from sheep in New Zealand:
– One third methane emissions from livestock in NZ
– In 2019 NZ had 37.8 mill livestock, 26.8m sheep, therefore, sheep make up 71% of livestock
– Since 1/3 of NZ methane emissions come from all of livestock then 1/3 x 71% is approx 25%, or 1/4 of NZ’s methane emissions from sheep
68 million sheep in Australia:
Wool.com – sheep numbers

83% of all Australian agricultural emissions are related to the farming of animals:
Beyond Zero Emissions – Land Use Report pg 45
Livestock and manure account for 52% of total national methane emissions:
WA govt article ‘How Australia accounts for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions’
GWP of methane is 86 times that of CO2 over a 20 year period. GWP of methane is 34 times that of CO2 over 100 years:
Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing – chapter 8 in IPCC’s 5th assessment report pg 714
Atmospheric methane (CH4) lasts about 12 years in the atmosphere:
Article in Nature journal

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