we kill 3T animals a year for food/medicine/clothing/etc. Maybe we should stop?
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I'm going to go brutally murder and deep-fry my dog just to cancel out whatever grass you ate today, you extremist vegoon! something something lions something desert island grumble grumble muh canines
Look I get you but
points at fangs
Canines though
^ Vampire! Run for your lives!!!
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Do ypu have a source for that 4 trillion?
not sure what the edit is for... you looking to be disagreed with? are there comments I can't see?
I was merely pointing out that people call people extremists for not eating animals, but they don't recognise that killing TRILLIONS of animals a year is not extreme.
I just don't think you have anything to apologize for. so why apologize?
it was a joke.
There are too many cultural factors involved to get a majority of people to stop eating meat.
The best way to reduce the number of livestock killed is to reduce the number of humans.
You can shift culture, at least slowly. I think our best shot at significantly reducing animals killed is probably investing more into lab-grown meat
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I don't think this is loss. I'm ready to eat crow if I'm proven wrong, but I think the real joke is the amount of time people will spend staring at this image and trying to figure out how it's loss
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By mass.
Are pets livestock, or did they miss a category of mammals? In the US there are more dogs than children.
It's intentionally misleading, like most vegan propaganda. It's by mass, not population.
Biomass is the usual way this sort of data is presented in environmental science. I think calling it “propaganda” is a bit much. But yes if would have been better if that were clear on the infographic.
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End of the Holocene, Last of the Megafauna party.
It’s so fucking surreal to me how much megafauna extinctions have happened in the past 50’000 years.
I don’t think people realise we had like giant land birds, megasloths, literal humungus kangaroos roaming round not that long ago.
The garden burned. We were best adapted.
https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/
(In many places, we burnt the garden).
We’ve been shaping ecosystems through fire for so long.
That article’s on my to read list now, thanks.
It's a good one. Add this too (audio) for the hopium.
birbs are only 2/3rds unreal confirmed ✅
Source?
Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is udder cowshit. Rats are mammals, as are raccoons, squirrels, and whole fucking masses of little basically unfarmable varmints. You're telling me that there's like 12 farm cows for every wild rat on earth?
Horse. Shit.
The source apperently takes the percentages by biomass, not by count as it seems. So small varmints will not have as much of an impact as a human or cow would.
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Does the wild animals include insects? What about single cell animals?
I believe they are only talking about mammals, but having a direct link would be cool.
No need for link - even in that picture the word "animal" is never written.
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