Shannon is a town in Lee County, Mississippi. The population was 1,753 at the 2010 Census. Shannon is located on Mississippi Highway 145, west of U.S. Route 45. Chiwapa Creek flows south of the town.
Aside from cattle, many kinds of livestock provide milk used by humans for dairy products. These animals include buffalo, goat, sheep, camel, donkey, horse, reindeer and yak. The first four respectively produced about 11%, 2%, 1.4% and 0.2% of all milk worldwide in 2011.
Overview. 1  More than nine billion (9,000,000,000) land animals die each year in the U.S. alone to produce meat, dairy, and eggs. 2  Globally, the number of deaths exceeds 70 billion (more than six million animals every hour). 3  The number of aquatic animals killed is far greater, but they are reported in pounds, not lives.