Faunalytics Index – August 2020

Author: Faunalytics | Published: August 5, 2020

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This month's Faunalytics Index provides facts and figures about annual global animal slaughter, animal advocate retention, fish welfare, wildlife consumption, and much more.

Each month, our Faunalytics Index provides a round-up of data, statistics, and facts gleaned from the most recent research we’ve covered in our library. Our aim is to give you a quick overview of some of the most eye-catching and informative bits of data that could help you be more effective in your advocacy for animals.

If you want to know more about any given statistic, follow the links below, read the source articles, and dive deeper into the issues.

90%

The percentage of people, including laypeople and vets, who believe that pain sensitivity varies among different dog breeds. There is no known physiological evidence for a difference in pain sensitivity across breeds.

2%

The approximate percentage of resources that the farmed animal movement in the U.S. spends resources on explicit capacity-building interventions, according to Animal Charity Evaluators.

70%

The percentage of students who had seen an Educated Choices Program presentation who expressed intent to reduce their consumption of meat and other animal products, compared to roughly 40% in the control group.

10-14 years

The average life expectancy of greyhounds. Meanwhile, the “careers” of racing greyhounds average 1-1.5 years, at which point many are euthanized.

2.3 years

The median amount of time that advocates stay with a particular advocacy organization. The most common reasons for leaving included problems with leadership (40%), finding a better opportunity (35%), not wanting to do a particular type of advocacy anymore (27%), and burnout (21%).

0/84

The total number of papers which looked at underwater noise, in a recent review of fish welfare studies in the E.U.

9.1 billion

The number of chickens slaughtered in the United States in 2018.

26%

The percentage of respondents in Northern Laos who reported consuming Sun Bear bile/gallbladder.

71%

The percentage of people in our annual community survey who agreed that Faunalytics’ work has helped guide their animal advocacy decisions. 70% said that our work was “extremely” or “very” valuable in their area of primary interest.

85%

The percentage of respondents in a recent study of older women in the animal protection movement, who made the switch to veganism after age 40.

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