To be exact, US agribusinesses slaughter eleven billion animals per year19 (and that's not including the estimated 47 billion fish and other aquatic animals killed annually20). That's 23,234 animals per minute, or 387 animals per second. In the time it took you to read these three paragraphs, nearly 73,000 more animals were killed.
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