A new interactive graph is helping put the power of our food choices into perspective - showing the number of animals killed associated with producing a million calories from eight different foods. The graph presents three tabs associated with the death process: harvest, slaughter, and the total of both. Click here to learn more about this project.



As this groundbreaking illustration reveals, the highest slaughter numbers are for chickens and their by-product, eggs. A plant-based diet is the most effective way to reduce the number of animals killed. For more information on cooking without animal products, click here.

The designer, Mark Middleton of AnimalVisuals.org, also created two other eye-opening animated graphics - one displaying the rate of cow, pig, and chicken slaughter in the United States and the other giving a virtual view through the eyes of a hen crammed inside a battery cage.