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If Humans Were Killed at the Same Rate as Animals for Food, We'd Be Extinct in Just 2.5 Days
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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I am not defending factory farming nor am I putting down veganism/vegetarianism but...they're using some big numbers to make it seem well thought-out but the premise makes no sense. They are not comparable things.
It's comparing a ton of species to one. If any animal was killed at the same rate as all animals, they'd go extinct
Humans are not bred as food.
The vast majority of humans do not regularly reproduce.
Humans reproduce at like 1 baby per year. That baby takes well over a decade to reach sexual maturity. Very different than any animal bred for food.
And why use this as a comparison when there's so many better ways to share the same information, anyway? Watch, I'll do it in one sentence:
An average of 2.5 animals for each human on earth are killed for food every single day.
Yeah, this type of argument (the post) only serves to weaken the message.
If my grandmother had wheels, she would've been a bike
I'm not sure how that saying relates to my comment.
Lol, it's an old clip from some cooking segment on a talk show where the host asks the chef if she could replace the main ingredient with something else and he replies with that.
Basically saying "you've changed so much about the premise, it's ridiculous to compare the results"
I'm saying the author is making an insane comparison between two VERY unlike things