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It's just loss. (mander.xyz)
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[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

who would win: giant cow or giant chick?

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[-] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

we kill 3T animals a year for food/medicine/clothing/etc. Maybe we should stop?

edit: sorry, that was quite extreme of me to suggest we don't kill 3T animals a year.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

Hope that serves as a warning the next time you feel like ~~expressing an opinion that differs from mine~~ being preachy.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Look I get you but

points at fangs

Canines though

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

^ Vampire! Run for your lives!!!

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

not sure what the edit is for... you looking to be disagreed with? are there comments I can't see?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 extreme.

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

in the comments section. straight up 'sourcing it'. and by 'it', haha, well. let's justr say. My pnas.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Quick Internet search.... https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

They are referring to biomass.

  • 1 cow ~ 1200 lbs / 545 kg

  • 1 rat ~ 0.5 lbs / 0.25 kg

1 cow ~ 2400 rats by biomass

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well thats not what the infographic says. It specifies "mammals", not "mammals by weight".

OK so how many tons of cow are accounted for by whales?

Or does the survey cherry pick land animals too?

[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I’ve eaten crow. I would not recommend it.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

This sounds like a way to cause an outbreak of Corvid-19.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

You forgot the citation bro.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Title made me think they were doing some 4 levels deep "loss" meme. It almost has it but frame 3 isn't close.

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Are pets livestock, or did they miss a category of mammals? In the US there are more dogs than children.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

End of the Holocene, Last of the Megafauna party.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I just cannot imagine a functioning planet like that tbh, there's no way cattle industries are something we can keep in the world without killing ourselves slowly.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Are these percentages referring to total biomass or population count?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Has to be biomass, rats alone are etimated to be about as numerous as humans.

Searched for the 96% number and found this study that the graphic is likely based on: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

birbs are only 2/3rds unreal confirmed ✅

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