56 billion land animals die every year for human consumption and use

I don’t want to belabour this, because it should be pretty self-explanatory, but I will say this: 56 billion land animals die every year for human consumption and use. The vast, vast majority of those die in horrific ways to which even people who have no moral issue with killing animals for food would likely object.
~ Jason Halbauer (February 27, 2010)