Fitter Happier

What's the difference between halal meat and non-halal meat? According to Islamic traditions, before being slaughtered, God's name should be pronounced over the meat as a show of appreciation. Then an animal is killed in one swift cut to its throat to ensure its blood is drained from its body. Over a billion farmed animals in Britain are killed each year in slaughterhouses. This include over 10 million pigs, over 15 million sheep, 16 million turkeys, 14 million ducks and geese, 975 million broiler chickens, 40 million so-called 'spent' hens and over 2.6 million cattle. In 2011/2012 there were roughly 7 billion people in the world and the average consumption was 14.5 kilograms per person per year. Doing some elementary mathematics, that comes out to 276 million kilograms of chicken consumed per day. If a chicken is roughly 5lb then this equates to 55 million chickens eaten each day.

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