Major Metropolitan Areas in Europe. Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Commission (European Union) now designates metropolitan areas (Note) for the European Union (EU) and the European Three Trade Association (EFTA). The EU has 28 members, having just added Croatia, while the EFTA has 4 members.
Millions Of Chickens To Be Killed As Bird Flu Outbreak Puzzles Industry. Millions Of Chickens To Be Killed As Bird Flu Outbreak Puzzles Industry. Chickens stand in their cages at a farm near Stuart, Iowa, in 2009. This week, bird flu hit a large poultry facility in Iowa. It's not clear how the virus is evading the industry's biosecurity efforts.
Now to the figures. Itâs estimated that 108 million people were killed in wars throughout the 20th century with estimates for all of human history coming around 150 million to 1 billion. Some hard and fast numbers we do have for animal slaughter are from the USDA for 2013. In that year alone the united stated slaughtered 8.6 billion chickens. so we have: 7.6 billion more chickens were killed in a single year in a single country than all the humans who have ever died from war. And that is even going with the highest estimation of human deaths. G lobal chicken slaughter is estimated at 50 billion.