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Not entirely convinced that outside the torment nexuses used in industrial meat farming, natural suffering is any lesser sans humanity.
by trylfthsk 7mo ago
Not entirely convinced that outside the torment nexuses used in industrial meat farming, natural suffering is any lesser sans humanity.
- aziaziazi 7mo agoEstimated scale of the torment nexuses: https://considerveganism.com/counter/ https://considerveganism.com/counter/
- stouset 7mo agoThe fish counter is horrifying, I had no idea.
- aziaziazi 7mo agoThe fish counter comes from here https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/estimating-global-numbers-of-fishes-caught-from-the-wild-annually-from-2000-to-2019/83F1B933E8691F3A552636620E8C7A01 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/artic... One could argue there's a double count: about one-fifth of fish are caught to feed other animals (mainly fish, but also terrestrial animals). But I don't think one kill offsets another. > around half of wild-caught finfish numbers are destined for reduction to fishmeal and oil, of which, respectively, 70 and 73% are used for aquaculture feeds