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This visualisation was an eye opener. https://justone.earth/food/ https://justone.earth/food/ Perhaps an individual animal suffering is less compared to a wild
by synu 4y ago
This visualisation was an eye opener. https://justone.earth/food/ https://justone.earth/food/
Perhaps an individual animal suffering is less compared to a wild death, but the sheer volume has to count for something.
- SapporoChris 4y agoAfter a cursory glance it would appear the we could reduce animal suffering by focusing on eating the larger animals that produce more food. The idea being, eat the big ones, feed more people, kill less animals. I'm not entirely serious about this. But I'm curious where the logical flaw is.
- RadiozRadioz 4y agoThe logical flaw is in feed ratios. More feed required to produce less edible mass, therefore more land, water, resources, etc used. Feed production is also typically monoculture in the US. Chickens are actually some of the most efficient animals in this regard: https://awellfedworld.org/feed-ratios/ https://awellfedworld.org/feed-ratios/
- thomastjeffery 4y agoIt's a neat visualization, but it's really missing a domain. They present the counts over time, and nothing else. There are ~8 billion people living. While some are starving, most of us are eating every day, if not several times per day. If we assume the average person is eating 2 meals per day, that means 5,840 billion meals per year, or ~185,185 meals per second.