The Swedish Board of Agriculture calculates the amount of meat consumption every quarter of a year. For the first half o the year 2020 it has declined by 4,1 % compared to the same period of 2019. Our member Djurens Rätt converted the number of declined meat consumption to the number of individual animals to an astonishing number of over half a million, or around 550 000, fewer animals were consumed during the first half-year of 2020.