Below is a list of sources for specific facts relating to animal rights, broken down by topic. Most sources are unbiased, but in cases where they’re not they’re either from animal agriculture interest groups themselves or from suitably reliable organisations or publications. I’ll be updating this frequently, so please click on the source for the most recent version of this post.
Cows only produce milk when pregnant and after birthing
Dairy cows restrained and forcibly impregnated
Dairy calves taken from their mothers
Calf seperation causes extreme distress
Dairy calf mother’s exhibit prolonged depressive states
Dairy calves killed after birth
Dairy cows killed when production slows
22.1% of female cows sent to slaughter pregnant
Throat slitting as kill method standard industry practice
Egg hens live 12-18 months
Hens kept in constant bright light to manipulate cycles
Poultry have the end of their beaks seared off
Poultry cannibalising due to overcrowding
Chickens dragged through electrified pools
Male chicks ground up alive
Free range does not mean kept outside
Free range no requirement for number of birds, space per bird, or slaughter method
Most piglets castrated without anasthetic
Most caught fish die from suffocation and stress
Current demand for animal products can only be met by factory farming
Illegal in several states to film conditions inside slaughterhouses
Emerging diseases in managed populations of bees could be a significant cause of wild bee decline
Queen bees artificially inseminated
Beekeepers using smoke to panic and disorient bees
Beekeepers burning hives during winter to cut costs
Managed honey bees compete with wild pollinators and lower the effectiveness of their pollination
Only 16 out of 145 reintroduction programs worldwide ever restore animal populations to the wild, most of these not from zoos.
Surplus zoo animals sold to circuses or roadside attractions
Surplus zoo animals regularly culled
Elephant’s lifespan less than half in captivity compared to wild
Zoo animals exhibit stereotypical stress behaviour
Zoo animals exhibit depressed states
Zoo animals exhibit increased aggression
Average zoo visitor only spends about thirty seconds to two minutes viewing any given exhibit
Studies suggest learning from zoo visits very poor
Even padded whips do hurt horses
One horse in every 22 races suffers an injury which prevents them from finishing a race
Official figures from the BRA shows that 811 horses died in race meetings between 2010 and 2013 in Britain alone
Fatal collapse of horses during races common
300 out of every 1,000 horses purpose-bred for racing will race- rest will be discarded.
Foals taken from their mothers by racing industry
Horse-racing Regulatory Authority admits that the industry “doesn’t really know what definitely happens to the horses when they stop racing.”
63% of whales who died in captivity before 2014 had been in captivity for fewer than six years
Repetitive stress behaviour in whales and dolphins in captivity
Aquariums rely on wild-caught animals
Many fish endangered due to over-collecting by aquariums and pet trade
Unwanted greyounds sold to university for slaughter and disection
Unwanted greyhound pups killed or sold to vivisectors
Most cows slaughtered before two years old
Newborn & unborn calves killed for softest leather
Estimated at least 22.1% of female cows sent to slaughter are pregnant
64% of pregnant cows slaughtered in 2nd or 3rd trimester
Leather production significant environmental impact
Leather production uses harmful products
90% of water used in tanning discharged as poisonous effluent.
Illness and death linked of workers linked to toxic tanning chemicals
Most fur sourced from intensive captive farms
Severe stress endured by captive fur animals
Fur treated with formaldehyde and chromium linked to cancer
Fur one of the world’s five worst industries for toxic-metal pollution
Real fur requires 20 times more energy to produce than faux fur
Sheep castrated and tail cut off without anaesthetic
Shearers paid per sheep not per hour encourages fast speeds
Sheep commonly injured during shearing
Commercial shearing and handling extremely stressful for sheep
Many sheared sheep die from hypothermia or exposure
Nearly a million sheep die each year during first 30 days after shearing
Lambs from wool sheep sent to slaughter
Lambs slaughtered between 2 and 4 months old
1kg of silk requires the deaths of approximately 5000 worms.
Up to 100 million animals are used in experiments per year
Most animals used in experiment are not protected by the main federal legislation governing animal use in research
9 out of 10 drugs that pass animal tests still go on to fail or cause harm in clinical trials on humans
Ability of animal experiments to predict effects on humans as low as 37%
Oncology drugs developed using animal testing have success rate of 5%
Extrapolated results from studies using tens of millions of animals fail to accurately predict human responses
Too many variables in animal experiments to gain reliable results
In 2012 115 million animals in scientific experiments; FDA approved only 35 new treatments
Testing of one substance alone can involve using up to 800 animals
The US National Research Council has called for the replacement of animal tests
Allergic reactions, some blood disorders, skin lesions and many central nervous system effects cannot be anticipated by animal testing
Different drugs have radically different effects on different species
Scientific reports show that variation in drug metabolism between species is the rule rather than the exception
Artificially re-created animal diseases cannot approximate a naturally occurring human disease
Environment and Conservation
Meat consumption driving global species extinction
UN urges move to meat and dairy-free diet
UN’s report on environmental impact of animal agriculture
Animal waste causing ocean dead zones
A high meat diet produces 2.5 times as many greenhouse gas emissions as a vegan diet, and twice as many as a vegetarian diet
60% of global bioversity loss due to meat based diets.
Beef production linked to deforestation
Global meat production and consumption continue to rise
Animal agriculture water use unsustainable
1,000 gallons of water produce 1 gallon of milk
1/3 of planet’s land surface and 2/3 of available agricultural land used for grazing farmed animals
Livestock is the world’s largest user of land resources
2.5 acres of land are used per cow
Between 65% and 88% of the deforestation of the Amazon is due to cattle ranching
Leather production uses harmful acids, salts, fungicides, bactericides, chromium, sulphides and sulphates
100% of water used in tanning discharged as poisonous effluent.
Animal agriculture responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions
Emissions for agriculture projected to increase 80% by 2050
7 million pounds of excrement produced by animals raised for food in US per minute
Farm with 2,500 dairy cows produces same amount of waste as city of 411,000 people.
2.7 trillion marine animals pulled from oceans each yeah
For every 1 pound of fish caught up to 5 pounds of unintended marine species caught and discarded as by-kill
US fishing industry produced 2 billion pounds of bycatch per year
300,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises caught in nets per year
37 pounds of “feeder” fish to produce 1 pound of commercially sold fish
Fishing severely damaging local ecosystems
Wild bees better pollinators than domestic honey bees
Domestic honey bees spreading diseases to wild bees
Domestic honey bees not endangered, many species of wild bees are.
Thousands of seals being shot to keep salmon industry going
Human Impact of Animal Agriculture
Eating vegan could save 8.1 million human lives per year
The impact of industrialised agriculture on world hunger
Animal agriculture severely effecting local communities
Human rights abuses rife in slaughterhouses
Prevlance of PTSD and alcohol abuse in slaughterhouses
Alcohol abuse prevalent in slaughterhouse workers
Slaughterhouse workers have high rates of injury
Many slaughterhouse workers poor immigrants with no other choice
Workers at animal farms exposed to antibiotic resistant bacteria
Many workers in slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants face real risk of losing limbs
Animal agriculture industries delay compensation claims from workers and take reprisals against those who file them
Poultry workers denied breaks, forced to wear diapers
Livestock consume 70% of all grain we produce
Livestock consume 75% of all soy we produce
Livestock accounts for 1/5 of all water use
Nearly 60% of the world’s agricultural land is used for beef production, yet beef accounts for less than 2% of the calories consumed globally
An acre of land can produce 40,000 pounds of potatoes, 50,000 pounds of tomatoes, or 250 pounds of beef.
Water footprint of any animal product larger than water footprint of a wisely chosen crop product with equivalent nutritional value.
Farmed animals take in more calories than they give out in meat
4 billion people globally live on a primarily plant based diet
Animal agriculture heavily subsidised by taxpayer
Indigenous communities threatened by ranching
Counties with larger nonwhite populations home to more factory farms
Animal agriculture industries structurally are racist
Over-fishing threatens the food security of around 200 million people
Food shortages could force the world to give up meat
American Dietetic Association on vegan diets
National Health Service on vegan diets
Academy of Nutrition and Dietitics on vegan diets
US National Library of Medicine on vegan diets
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on vegan diets
UN report on impact of meat on health
Physician’s Committee on meat consumption and cancer link
Red and processed meats linked to mortality
Eating red meat may shorten lifespan
World Watch Institute health risks of rise in global meat consumption
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat
Vegans have significantly lower risk of early death
Vegans have substantially lower death rates than meat-eaters
80% of antibiotics sold in US fed to livestock
Extensive use of antibiotics in intensive livestock production major cause of the increase in antibiotic-resistant diseases in UK
Swine flu pandemic linked to factory farming
Bird flu pandemic linked to factory farming
Gut bacteria on 97% of retail chicken breasts
More e-coli deaths caused by poultry than any other commodity
(More resources at Acti-veg.com)
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