🐣Killed Young

It is often argued that exploitation and slaughter is fine because the animals lived long, happy lives before being killed. However, this is almost never the case. Most animals in animal agriculture are killed when they're basically babies. Even if the animals did live long and happy lives, this would make killing them even worse because they would value their lives even more when they're needlessly taken away from them. Below is a chart which converts the age at which the animals are usually killed, into a fraction of their lifespan, and then into what that fraction would be for a human lifespan, assuming the average human lifespan of 80 years.

Animal	Age Killed	In Human Time	Lifespan	Record Age
Cattle for beef	1 year	4 years	20 years
Cattle for veal	16 weeks	1.2 years	20 years
Cattle, males in dairy	1 day	4 days	20 years
Cattle, females in dairy	4 years	16 years	20 years
Pigs	6 months	2.6 years	15 years
Chickens, broilers	6 weeks	1.1 years	8 years	22 years
Chickens, males in the egg-industry	1 day	10 days	8 years	22 years
Chickens, female egg-layers	1 year	10 years	8 years	22 years
Turkeys	17 weeks	2.6 years	10 years
Ducks	7 weeks	8 months	15 years
Sheep, lambs	3 months	1.6 years	12 years
Sheep, for wool	5.5 years	37 years	12 years

Sources on world record ages: Chickens https://spca.bc.ca/programs-services/farm-animal-programs/farm-animal-production/broiler-chickens/ https://ask.usda.gov/s/article/How-old-are-chickens-used-for-meat