Some other ideas to put the scale into perspective:
There are a bunch of slaughter counters online that increment the number of animals killed per species over time, which also helps put the scale into perspective, but not so useful for thinking about the number of animals alive at any moment. Based on the data here, it seems to be about 2000 farmed chickens (for meat or eggs) and 3000 farmed fishes slaughtered per second.
For number alive at any moment, the ratio with number of humans alive at any moment could be helpful, too, but only as a relative scale. For example, you’d imagine 2 to 3 chickens and 11 to 12 farmed fishes, in misery, hanging around each human, on average.
You could also imagine each person slaughtering a chicken every ~40 days and a farmed fish about once a month.
Thanks for putting all of this together!
Some other ideas to put the scale into perspective:
There are a bunch of slaughter counters online that increment the number of animals killed per species over time, which also helps put the scale into perspective, but not so useful for thinking about the number of animals alive at any moment. Based on the data here, it seems to be about 2000 farmed chickens (for meat or eggs) and 3000 farmed fishes slaughtered per second.
For number alive at any moment, the ratio with number of humans alive at any moment could be helpful, too, but only as a relative scale. For example, you’d imagine 2 to 3 chickens and 11 to 12 farmed fishes, in misery, hanging around each human, on average.
You could also imagine each person slaughtering a chicken every ~40 days and a farmed fish about once a month.