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Basically any supermarket meat then? https://top5ofanything.com/list/535cb238/Most-Common-Types-of-Farm-Animals https://top5ofanything.com/list/535cb238/Most-Co
by rawnlq 9y ago
Basically any supermarket meat then? https://top5ofanything.com/list/535cb238/Most-Common-Types-of-Farm-Animals https://top5ofanything.com/list/535cb238/Most-Common-Types-o... (actually a little surprised to see sheep/duck ahead of pig)
- qume 9y agoSo from that page I did a rough calculation - the following is in billions of tons of the animals alive in 2006: Chickens 34 Cattle 560 Sheep 70 Ducks 2 Pigs 75 Total 741 (animals) Humans 420 Looks like there are nearly two measures of livestock weight for every one of humans.
- beloch 9y ago~7.6 billion humans weigh 420 billion tons? That would mean the average human weighs 55 tons! Talk about an epidemic of extreme morbid obesity!
- qume 9y agoGood spotting, for humans that's Million tons. It's going to be quite some time until humans weigh 55 tons, but if you interpret the graph like people pitching to investors like to, we'll get there.
- riffraff 9y agopig is a no-go in muslim culture, which constitutes a large part of the world population. The duck thing seems to be entirely dependent on china consuming more ducks than pigs, which is very surprising for me.
- usrusr 9y agoMeasured in whole-population calorie throughout, is there a more successful species than cattle? They even managed to breed (in their own passive, patient way) a large group of their bipedal accomplices into greater compatibility/dependence.
- stickfigure 9y agoI'm picturing several classic movies remade from the cows' perspective. Logan's Run would be the obvious choice, but I could also see a bovine Charlton Heston shouting You've gotta tell 'em! BEEF IS COW! We gotta stop them! Somehow! Listen! Listen to me… MOOOOOO!!
- tomjakubowski 9y agoThis was more or less the premise of Chicken Run, which sets The Great Escape in a chicken farm.