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2026-05-09 21:21 UTC
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-05-09 21:50
https://considerveganism.com/counter/ Not even just land animals (although that's 100% true). Life-for-life, land animals would be exceeded by wild-caught fish (conservatively) in a matter of days if literally the entire world went vegan in a microsecond and literally every farmed land animal on Earth were slaughtered at the same instant. Humans arguably couldn't even practicably keep up the worldwide mass-slaughter pace just compared to wild-caught animals within this ridiculous anti-vegan fever dream. --- Edit: [Say](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/livestock-counts) there are 30 billion land animals as livestock. Assume [on the *very* low end](https://fishcount.org.uk/fish-count-estimates-2) that 1 trillion wild fishes are caught every year. This would mean you'd be killing 1/33 of the annual wild fish catch in a microsecond and that it'd take you about 12 days to, life-for-life, exceed the *instantly killed* entire land livestock population from wild-caught fishes *alone*. As icing on the cake: "We estimate that 124 billion farmed fishes were killed for food in 2019.", so contract that down to less than 10 days if you count fish overall.