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 3 farm cows for every wild rat on earth?
Horse. Shit.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
we kill 3T animals a year for food/medicine/clothing/etc. Maybe we should stop?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m going to go brutally murder and deep-fry my dog just to cancel out whatever grass you ate today, you foolish vegoon! something something lions something desert island grumble grumble muh canines
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Look I get you but
points at fangs
Canines though
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
not sure what the edit is for… you looking to be disagreed with? are there comments I can’t see?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days 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 not extreme.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Do ypu have a source for that 4 trillion?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
it changes depends on the source. this quotes 1.2T per year. It’s in the trillions anyway.
Cypher@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
CybranM@feddit.nu 4 days ago
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
scratchee@feddit.uk 4 days ago
If you’re worried about cultural factors, you might find removing any significant percentage of the total population will likely run into even more implacable “cultural factors” than meat reduction would.
This is regardless of the method of population reduction, save perhaps “slow decline” which seems to be promising atm, but that obviously has the downside that it’ll take a few generations to really have an impact.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I don’t think a single vegan is expecting animal exploitation to completely end in their lifetime. This will require a cultural shift that could take so fucking long. Despite that, we all think it is worth doing and being a part of.
MML@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I mean okay