Kenya is a good performer (“B”) under the VACI. Although the country has low levels of animal production and consumption, there is significant room for improvement in its animal protection laws and enforcement.
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Kenya is a good performer (“B”) under the VACI. Although the country has low levels of animal production and consumption, there is significant room for improvement in its animal protection laws and enforcement.
Kenya slaughters around 0.8 land-based animals per person per year, significantly lower than the global average of 10.1. The country’s dependence on farmed animals is also low, with around 2.3 farmed animals per person, compared with a global average of 4.1. Production is mostly small-scale and extensive, but Kenya’s animal agriculture sector is primed to grow. Factory farming is spreading - particularly with pigs, chickens and other farmed birds.
The Kenyan diet contains a relatively low proportion of animal products, with around 24% of the average person’s diet made up of land-based animal protein, versus a global average of 35.2%. Each Kenyan consumes around 14.3g of land-based animal protein per day, compared with a global average of 27.2g.
Kenya is rated as a marginal performer (“D”) under the Animal Protection Index (API), and its farmed animal protection legislation achieved a very poor performance (“F”) rating under the same index. This is due to significant gaps in its farmed animal protection laws and inadequate law enforcement mechanisms. Learn more about the quality of Kenya’s legislative protections on the API here.