Factory farming: the RAW facts

Help expose the true cost of factory farming

Factory farming is a failing system of food production - here are some of the shocking reasons why. Why not share them with your Twitter followers and help expose the true cost of factory farming:

Tweet Nearly 50 billion farm animals are factory farmed every year

Tweet Give 100 food calories to livestock and you get back only 30; a 70pc loss

Tweet Nearly 80pc of antibiotics distributed in 2009 in US were for farm animals

Tweet Overuse of antibiotics for farm animals = more drug-resistant bacteria

Tweet Global meat production has quadrupled since the early 1960s

Tweet Two out of every three farm animals in the world are now factory farmed

Tweet More animals are factory farmed worldwide than at any other time in history

Tweet Worldwide, about 70 billion farm animals are now reared for food each year

Tweet A typical UK chicken has 2x more fat/a third less protein than 40 years ago

Tweet Two-thirds of UK chickens have been found to be infected with campylobacter

Tweet Factory farmed piglets are often tail-docked/teeth-clipped w/o pain relief

Tweet Area of forest size of half the UK cleared yearly, much of it for animal feed

Tweet 70pc+ of globally threatened wild birds said to be impacted by agriculture

Tweet Farm animals are more prone to campylobacter infection when stressed

Tweet An area of land the size of the EU is used to grow feed for farm animals

Tweet 1kg of animal protein requires an average of 6kg of protein from feed

Tweet Ca. 30pc of the nitrogen that pollutes waters in EU/US comes from livestock

Tweet Livestock industry creates 18pc of human GHGs. More than transport sector

Tweet Nearly 1.5bn people worldwide are overweight or obese, while 1bn are underfed

Tweet Heavy red meat consumption can raise risk of bowel cancer by as much as 43pc

Tweet Amazon deforestation for grazing and crops could see 40pc destroyed by 2050

Tweet Some large farms can produce more raw waste than a large US city

Tweet Nearly a 1/3 of cereal harvests go to farm animals. This could feed 3bn of us

Tweet A shed with 100,000 meat chickens can emit up to 77kg of polluting dust daily

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