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[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

nice, we saved cow, chicken, and pigs from extinction.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

This is highly depressing to see first thing in the morning.

[–] toppy@lemy.lol 5 points 5 days ago

This is very depressing. I feel science and technology has improved a lot and now people should consume lab grown meat and lab grown milk. Humans should try to reduce their imprint in the world. Human growth has become unsustainable. We produce so much food but still there is hunger. So many kids around the world are dying of hunger. Something has to change. Otherwise I feel the system will collapse.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 points 6 days ago

And yet cats kill billions of birds each year. Wild.

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

There aren't cougars in missions!

[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 days ago

Glad we aren't any of those things then.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 108 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

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.

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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

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.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

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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