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Food For Thought

Monday 12 September 2011

It may be some days before I post here again, as I will soon be away attending the funeral of my father, who died last Friday.

In the meantime, I will leave you with this. You may have seen it on other sites, but it’s always worth repeating.

These are the numbers of animals killed worldwide by the meat, dairy and egg industries since you opened this page. The list does not include the billions of fish and other aquatic animals killed every year.

(Based on 2007 statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas.)

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