🔒 The end of the slaughterhouse

He went to church, loved his children and paid his gambling debts. He simply lived in a world where a certain kind of cruelty was so ordinary that it became invisible. Today, we look back on it in disbelief. A hundred years from now, someone will look at us in exactly the same way, and it will most likely be because of animals.

The numbers are almost impossible to comprehend. Every year, between 72 and 80 billion land animals are killed in slaughterhouses worldwide, about 95% of them chickens. We can’t even count the fish: estimates run into the hundreds of billions, perhaps even trillions, each year. This isn’t some marginal corner of the economy. It’s practically an economy of its own—a state within a state.