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by aziaziazi 8mo ago
Estimated scale of the torment nexuses: https://considerveganism.com/counter/ https://considerveganism.com/counter/
- stouset 8mo 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