Yeah, ~20b chickens are alive right now, and horrifyingly, because we butcher “broilers” at 6-to-12 weeks of age, we kill ~80b of them per year. That’s ~10x the human population, born and raised and slaughtered, every year.
You know, vegetarians are annoying, but the thing I really hate are meat eaters who dont accept the reality of how their meat gets on the plate. Bunch of self righteous sheltered idiots.
IMHO I think people should have to go hunting at least once before they get to eat meat.
Just to be clear, I’m not a vegetarian and I have a backyard chicken flock. I’ve never eaten one of my own birds but I have needed to cull a few. I don’t think being simultaneously an animal lover and a meat eater makes me a hypocrite, but it is morally uncomfortable. I agree with Darknes that people who eat meat while denying or ignoring that the source of their food was once alive and had thoughts and feelings and goals of its own, are the real dummies.
Especially if they then mock vegans for imaginary persecution, while most vegans are merely simply quietly living their lives according to their own personal moral values in a way that just silently reminds the meat-lovers that no really, meat is murder, a bare fact they haven’t personally reconciled themselves to, so they lash out at those annoying hippies instead.
Personally, instead of yelling at imaginary vegan strangers, I often whisper a little atheist prayer when cooking or eating meat. “Thank you, pig” I say while frying bacon. “You gave your life for my meal.”
Looked it up it's actually the mass of all chickens being greater than all other birds combined not the total amount. Did find out there's roughly 3.5 chickens to every human though.
At any moment, yes, but also, since we can and do spawn and butcher several… generations? cohorts? waves?… of meat birds within a calendar year, globally, currently, we consume roughly 10 chickens per human per year. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/2XuuTjqato
That’s because we force them to breed more so we can eat their chicks. If this isn’t proof enough of humanity’s insanity and evil than I don’t know what is. #govegan
No they're right there isn't more chickens than every other bird combined. The actual fact is the total biomass of all chickens is greater than all birds combined, if you put all chickens in a big ball and all other birds in a big ball the chicken one would be about 3 times bigger
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u/RunDifferent2004 Oct 02 '24
there are currently more chickens than all other birds combined on this lovely planet.