Odd facts you stumble across

[aitm]

Try this one out and add yours

[spoil:3jbd55ru]Over 23 million chickens are whacked every day in the US. 23 million! Holy fuck, thats a lot of chicken...23 million.....jesus, where the fuck do they keep them all?[/spoil:3jbd55ru]

[the_antithesis]

[spoil:1oyglofc]Over 23 million chickens are whacked every day in the US. 23 million! Holy fuck, thats a lot of chicken...23 million.....jesus, where the fuck do they keep them all?[/spoil:1oyglofc]

[spoil:1oyglofc]In buckets.[/spoil:1oyglofc]

[Mermaid]

[spoil:2s1uu2on]:rollin:[/spoil:2s1uu2on]

[aitm]

:axe

[billhilly]

well, that explains all the poor people :-k

[hillbillyatheist]

at least the blacks. LOL

[aitm]

You guys don't appreciate the staggering number..23 million every single day.  Every Day! Holy crap. Thats 8 billion a year. 8 BIllion!

[Shiranu]

And that's just chickens; now add in all the other produce animals.

Now add in all the animals for sport.

Now add in all the animals in the oceans and lakes we pollute.

Just in the U.S., 23 million is only a fraction of a fraction of the total number of animals killed and harmed by humans... but that 23 million definitely helps put it into perspective as they are animals we actually have some sort of bond with.

[WitchSabrina]

[spoil:31ikrkow]:rollin:[/spoil:31ikrkow]

[spoil:31ikrkow][spoil]Ditto
 :rollin:  :rollin:   That was epic funny[/spoil:31ikrkow][/spoil]

[Hydra009]

You guys don't appreciate the staggering number..23 million every single day.  Every Day! Holy crap. Thats 8 billion a year. 8 BIllion!

It's also one chicken consumed per 13 people every day in the U.S.  That's not so surprising.

Some more factoids:  Finns consume an average of 12 kg of coffee per person per year. [source]  And 361 kg of milk per person per year. [source]

China produces waaay more tomatoes than any other country. [source]  And onions.  [source]  And apples.  [source]

[Plu]

It's also one chicken consumed per 13 people every day in the U.S. That's not so surprising.

Putting it further into perspective, since one chicken generates about 2 pounds of meat, that means that if none of the chicken is wasted (as if) and about in 1 in 3 people include some chicken with their evening meal, and chicken meat is used for nothing else, you should about make that number.

In reality, chicken is probably also added to sandwiches, soups, and dozens of other dishes. (But probably less than 1 in 3 people have it for dinner).

[stromboli]

This isn't an odd fact. This is education.

In animal husbandry, feed conversion ratio (FCR), feed conversion rate, or feed conversion efficiency (FCE), is a measure of an animal's efficiency in converting feed mass into increased body mass.
Specifically FCR is the mass of the food eaten divided by the body mass gain, all over a specified period. Being a ratio, FCR is thus dimensionless, i.e. there are no measurement units associated with FCR.
Animals that have a low FCR are considered efficient users of feed. However, comparisons of FCR among different species may be of little significance unless the feeds involved are of similar quality and suitability. The U.S. pork industry claims to have an FCR of 3.4-3.6 [1][dead link].[2] Farm raised Atlantic salmon have a very good FCR, about 1.2, according to farmed salmon industry representatives. When taking into account the true mass of material needed to make fish feed, however, the conversion ratio increases dramatically to 3:1 according to some sources.[3][citation needed]
Tilapia, typically, 1.6 to 1.8.[4] Poultry has a feed conversion ratio of 2 to 1.[4]

Hogs convert food to meat at a better percentage than cattle. Chicken and fish at a higher percentage.

Animals best suited to a small farmstead are rabbits and chickens because they take up less space, and are more efficient in converting food to meat.

[SGOS]

[spoil:2vxz3ldo]Given that 23 million is just the number chickens that die every day, what is the United States total living chicken population?[/spoil:2vxz3ldo]

[SGOS]

[spoil:i1474sbx]Clearly, we're not killing off enough chickens.[/spoil:i1474sbx]

[surly74]

just wait until food producers grow chickens with more than two wings.