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i’ve been getting asked or told a lot on facebook about the animals killed in growing and harvesting crops.

I must mention that there seems to be a great deal of concern for the animals killed or injured in crop cultivation but no concern for the animals killed to feed meat eaters directly and the small animals and insects who perish due to their assumed consumption of crop foods.

The facts:

Wild animals killed annually in crop monoculture are around 7.3 billion.

Every year an estimated 3.5 quadrillion insects are killed or harmed in the growing and harvesting of crops.

Globally, the meat industry slaughters more than 80 billion animals each year.

Croplands comprise one-third of agricultural land, and grazing land comprises two-thirds.

If we combine global grazing land with the amount of cropland used for animal feed, livestock accounts for 80% of agricultural land use. Crops for humans account for 16%. And non-food crops for biofuels and textiles come to 4%. (Our World in Data, Four Paws and Farming Portal)

Meat eaters cause more harm to insect life merely by contributing to the meat and dairy industry’s dependencies on crops - adding up to 80% of crops consumed.

They also presumably consume crops themselves, further contributing to insect deaths.

Vegans choosing crops from the 16% consumed only by humans logically cause much less harm to animal life overall.

There are also ways to reduce the impact of crop cultivation on animal life, including organic farming, veganic farming and the newer but growing vertical farming.

One important thing to keep in mind is that vegans don’t claim to live cruelty free. They simply exclude certain products and choose less harmful options.

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Andrea Kladar is a Yugoslav war refugee, philanthropist, vegan, triathlete and finance professional who lives in Calgary, Canada.

She is the founder of the 100 FOR 100 Movement which inspires people to run 100 km to save 100 animals.

https://100for100.me/https://www.facebook.com/AndreaKladarPage/

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the tragic life & death of a free range chicken

Here you may find more information from United Poultry Concerns:

 https://www.upc-online.org/freerange.html

 Text by SAFE.

 SAFE educates, informs and empowers people to make cruelty-free, plant-based and vegan choices.

https://safe.org.nz/

 Image with kind permission from Joanne McArthur.

 https://joannemcarthur.com/https://www.upc-online.org/freerange.html

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Image by Lisette Art.

@lizetteart

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While the U.S. Department of Agriculturie (USDA) requires chickens on so-called “free-range” farms to have access to outdoor areas, it doesn’t specify how much time they must be allowed to spend outside or how much space they should be given.

Almost all free-range chickens are still kept in huge flocks in large crowded barns, being let outside for parts of the day, weather permitting.

These barns have a stocking density of up to four hens per square metre.

Pop-holes are the exits provided in barns to allow free-range hens to get outside. Many barns don’t have enough, and the exits are often blocked by dominant hens asserting the pecking order.

In reality an average of fewer than 10 per cent of free-range chickens will be outside at any given time. What’s more, some never go outside at all.

- United Poultry Concerns and One Living Sanctuary.

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Contrary to popular belief, battery cages do not equate to one cage per hen. Rather, hens are stuffed into communal cages that are often no more than a few feet across, and only about 15 inches in height.

In the 2017 guidelines established by United Egg Producers, a marketing association of US egg farmers, each hen must have 67-86 square inches of space.

Unable even to spread their wings without hitting their cage-mates or the wire sides of the cage, caged laying hens are among the most intensively confined animals in agribusiness.

- The Humane League and The Humane Society of the United States.

The iPad Pro 12 (2021) measures(8.46×11.05×0.25 inches) - 93.5 square inches.

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Image with kind Permission from Dana Ellyn.

@danaellyn

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