{"id":988,"date":"2024-08-07T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/?page_id=988"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:24:15","slug":"kill-counter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/en\/kill-counter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill-Counter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"top-img-banner\">\n<h1>Kill-Counter<\/h1>\n<h2>Live counter for killed animals<\/h2>\n<style>\n.top-img-banner::after {\nbackground-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 47.06%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.94)), \nurl('https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2C5A8918-Edit-scaled.jpg')\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<span class=\"credit\">\nImage: \n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fairy.taleproject\/\">\n@fairy.taleproject\n<\/a>\n<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:75px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>On this page, we show you how many animals are really dying. <\/strong>This is an attempt to make the staggering number of land animals killed more visible. We often see abstract figures \u2013 thousands or millions of animals dying for humans \u2013 but grasping the severity of these numbers can be difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>How the counter works<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We refer to data from Germany. Annual summaries are easily available. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwf.de\/themen-projekte\/landwirtschaft\/massentierhaltung#:~:text=In%20Deutschland%20werden%20derzeit%20etwa,%2C%20Schweine%2C%20K%C3%BChe%20und%20Rinder.\">WWF<\/a>, &#8220;Currently, around 700 million animals are used for food purposes in Germany. <strong>About 750 million animals are slaughtered annually<\/strong>, more than two million animals per day.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/albert-schweitzer-stiftung.de\/aktuell\/schlachtzahlen-fleischverzehr-2023\">Albert-Schweitzer-Foundation<\/a> refers to figures from the Federal Statistical Office from 2023. They not only provide the exact number of total animal killings in Germany in 2023 (745,052,689 animals) but also provide data for individual animal species. We break these numbers down to the number of animals killed per second.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group kill-counter-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Live counter for killed animals (Germany)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Since you loaded this webpage,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kill-counter-single\">\n\n<p><span class=\"akc-total_germany\">0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">animals died in Germany.*<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:304px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1210\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1723\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-1536x726.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fuer-alle-tiere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/piglet-11244-crop-2048x968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#57514f\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left quote-intro has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Animals are sentient beings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Killings by Animal Species<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group kill-counter-box one-animal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Broiler Chickens<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kill-counter-single\">\n\n<p><span class=\"akc-masthuehner_germany\">0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group kill-counter-box one-animal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Pigs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kill-counter-single\">\n\n<p><span class=\"akc-schweine_germany\">0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group kill-counter-box one-animal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Cows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kill-counter-single\">\n\n<p><span 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has-text-align-center\">Goose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kill-counter-single\">\n\n<p><span class=\"akc-gaense_germany\">0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group kill-counter-box one-animal\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Ducks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"kill-counter-single\">\n\n<p><span class=\"akc-enten_germany\">0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>* <strong>How We Calculated<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figures from the Federal Statistical Office, processed by the <a 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