{"id":2907,"date":"2009-07-22T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2009-07-24T02:33:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T18:33:44","slug":"not-a-laughing-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/07\/not-a-laughing-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Laughing Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2912 alignnone\" title=\"slaughterhouse\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/slaughterhouse.jpg?resize=480%2C184\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"184\" \/><em><br \/>\n(picture source: Angel Franco\/The New York Times)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-content\"><!-- BEGIN Animal Kill Counter (This is a modified version, it was ORIGINALLY POSTED BY SFVEGAN.ORG  Numbers are based off of 2003 statistics published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) --><\/p>\n<div id=\"counter\" class=\"count\">\n<div id=\"counter0\"><span id=\"count0\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc0\"> chickens<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter1\"><span id=\"count1\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc1\"> ducks<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter2\"><span id=\"count2\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc2\"> pigs<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter3\"><span id=\"count3\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc3\"> rabbits<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter4\"><span id=\"count4\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc4\"> turkeys<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter5\"><span id=\"count5\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc5\"> geese<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter6\"><span id=\"count6\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc6\"> sheep<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter7\"><span id=\"count7\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc7\"> goats<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter8\"><span id=\"count8\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc8\"> cows and calves<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter9\"><span id=\"count9\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc9\"> rodents (excluding rabbits)<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter10\"><span id=\"count10\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc10\"> pigeons and other birds<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter11\"><span id=\"count11\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc11\"> buffaloes<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter12\"><span id=\"count12\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc12\"> horses<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter13\"><span id=\"count13\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc13\"> donkeys and mules<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"counter14\"><span id=\"count14\">0<\/span> <span id=\"desc14\">camels and other camelids<\/span><\/div>\n<p>These are the numbers of animals who have been killed in the world by the meat, dairy, and egg industries, since you opened this webpage.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ < ![CDATA[\n\/\/ < ![CDATA[\nvar persecond = 8;\nvar numbers = [ 45895000000, 2262000000, 1244000000, 857000000,\n691000000, 533000000, 515000000, 345000000, 292000000, 65000000,\n63000000, 23000000, 4000000, 3000000, 2000000];\nvar counts = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ];\nvar rate = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ];\nfunction incrementcounter()\n{\nvar num;\nvar str;\nvar th;\nfor (var i = 0; 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They do not include the billions of marine animal killed each year. They do not include the millions of animals killed in laboratories, fur farms, animal shelters, zoos, marine parks, or circuses. Nor do they include the animals killed by human negligence, blood sports, abuse, or extermination attempts.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The United States consumes almost 20% of land animals slaughtered with less than 5% of the world\u2019s population.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And I bet the numbers had increased since 2003 and still going up.\u00a0It&#8217;s not a laughing matter and please say no to meat at least once a meal if not once a week. \u00a0=((<\/p>\n<p>Amituofo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(picture source: Angel Franco\/The New York Times) 0 chickens 0 ducks 0 pigs 0 rabbits 0 turkeys 0 geese 0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}