> killing animals... would continue to occur at roughly the same rate even if there were no humans in the world Would it? Maybe in absolute terms when you incl

> killing animals... would continue to occur at roughly the same rate even if there were no humans in the world Would it? Maybe in absolute terms when you include insects, but it's less clear if you talk about specific taxa. >50e9 chickens per year are slaughtered (and most don't have great lives before that), which is comparable to low-end estimates of the total number of wild birds on the planet (https://www.dw.com/en/50-billion-birds-live-on-earth-new-study-finds/a-57564439 https://www.dw.com/en/50-billion-birds-live-on-earth-new-stu...). It seems likely that humans kill more chickens pa than non-humans kill all other birds combined.