Nebraska, Come on Down! But Watch Out for the Chickens!

by Stephanie Ernst · 2008-12-02 06:57:00 UTC
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Be proud, dear state. In October, you once again led the nation in the number of cattle slaughtered. In this one month alone, 614,900 cows and bulls were killed, dismembered, skinned, and packaged into plastic inside your borders. In a nation where nearly 3 million cattle, more than all the people in the Metro St. Louis area, were killed just in October, 20 percent met their end in Nebraska. And what's more, you jumped back from your September slump of of only 601,300! But watch your back--Texas isn't far behind you.

And you know, even though the grateful cattle industry may praise you, you and the industry both have other reasons not to be so cocky too. Did you know that 650,000,000 chickens were slaughtered in November? 650 million! And those are the numbers for just the "fryers"; I bet that's not even counting the spent egg-laying hens! Sheesh--you're still in just the hundreds of thousands per month. The U.S. chicken industry is slaughtering more animals each day--25 million a day, 17,000 each minute--than you kill in six months! The industry estimates that 21.5 million chickens were butchered just yesterday, in only 11 states! Not feeling so big and important now, are you?

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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