Annual cereal production will need to rise to about 3 billion tonnes from 2.1 billion today and annual meat production will need to rise by over 200 million tonnes to reach 470 million tonnes. The poultry industry will growth the next decade, with projections indicating an increase of 20 million metric tons in chicken production. Poultry producers, disease experts and government officials are now questioning the practice of widespread culling in response to h5n1 bird flu outbreaks. We consume 65 billion chickens each year with 65 billion chickens consumed each year, the signature fossil of the modern epoch may be the leftovers There are about 23 billion chickens on earth at any given time, at least ten times more than any other bird, forty times the number of sparrows. The enumeration to be chosen, when more than one survey is taken, is the closest to the beginning of the calendar year
Livestock data are reported in number of heads (units) except for poultry, rabbits and other rodents which are reported in thousand units. Approximately 50 billion chickens are killed each year for meat globally, averaging around 137 million chickens per day The global poultry industry slaughters an astonishing 202 million chickens every single day This staggering number represents the largest daily kill count of any land animal raised for food.
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