This page presents blunt statistics and commentary about the scale of industrial poultry slaughter. Nothing graphic is depicted — no gore, no photos of slaughter — but the numbers themselves are intense and the framing is deliberately confrontational. Viewer discretion is advised.
A live, sobering look at the speed of industrial chicken slaughter
Chicken is the most-consumed meat on the planet, and the scale required to supply that demand is difficult to picture in ordinary terms. Estimates compiled from agricultural production data put global chicken slaughter at somewhere around two thousand birds every second, day and night, every day of the year. This page turns that estimate into something you can watch happen in real time, for as long as you keep the tab open.
A rate like this doesn't tell you anything about the conditions on a specific farm, the laws in a specific country, or the choices of any individual producer. What it does show is the sheer industrial scale of modern poultry production, and how that scale can make the individual animal disappear from view entirely. Whether that scale is something you find acceptable, troubling, or somewhere in between is left for you to decide — this page just makes the number impossible to ignore.
If you want to dig into the underlying data yourself, independent research groups such as Our World in Data and the UN's FAO statistics database publish global livestock and slaughter figures that this page's estimate is based on.