Counting Animals -- A place for people who love animals and numbers!

The Thanksgiving season is upon us and, horrifically, upon turkeys. We will see their carcasses everywhere — sliced and served on the lunch plate, or dressed and stuffed on the dinner table. They will be talked about at the water-cooler and laughed about...

The majority of the fish we eat are not ones caught in the wild. They are farmed—confined and raised in overcrowded indoor tanks or sea cages—under the more decorous name of aquaculture. Yet, we kill billions of wild fish. Some of them end up on our...

If you are an advocate for the animals we use for food, you may have had conversations with friends, colleagues or neighbors in which someone says: “I buy meat only from a small, local, humane farm.” One common reaction of animal advocates is skepticism...

Chickens have mothers, a fact easy to forget as we ponder our supper-time decision on whether to eat them baked, broiled, roasted or fried. These mothers, called broiler breeders by the industry, are used to lay the eggs which are incubated and hatched...