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Another point: we are only looking at the total number of animals but modern farm animals have been created to be extra meaty so one modern fat chicken could have more meat than 2 old school lean chicken.

Also this study isolates numbers from 2007 to 2012, while numbers went up again in 2015.

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/resources/research/stats_slaughter_totals.html?referrer=http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/11/27/half-a-billion-fewer-animals-were-killed-since-2007-because-people-are-eating-less-meat/