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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

fun fact: we kill 3 TRILLION animals a year, most of which are sea animals.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

fun fact: animals, exluding humans, kill about 1 MILLION of us humans a year, most of which are not sea animals.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Weird mathematical fact about that,

That works out to almost exactly every person on Earth killing exactly one animal every day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Actually very interesting, I wonder if this ratio holds up throughout history.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I guess people eating a basket of shrimp are balanced out by people sharing one cow with several hundred others.

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