23 million chickens are killed for food in the U.S. every day.

That’s 269 birds turned into KFC every second! Modern chickens are also bred to be abnormally heavy, which means that many cannot support their own body weight. The California Poultry Federation estimates that 30 chickens are consumed per Californian! All in all, 9 million chickens are slaughtered for food per year, which makes up 90% of the total land animals that are killed for human consumption.