Agriculture Reference
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no. of animals killed per month in the u.s. industries: 952,485,950
952,485,950
756,271,750
that number had been reduced by 90 percent, while the number
of pigs raised skyrocketed. Similarly, in 1910, 870,000 farmers
raised 3.7 million turkeys. In 2007, more than half of the nearly
265 million turkeys slaughtered in the United States were raised
under contract in industrialized production facilities for only three
companies.
It's been the same story in the chicken, egg, and dairy sectors.
Only the cattle business has avoided this massive drop in producer
numbers; there are still about one million operations that typically
follow the formula of grazing cattle while they're young and then
fattening them on massive amounts of corn, rather than grass, in
