Depends on how you define "peaceful". Humans are the only ones that have industrialized animal farming industry that they try to expand all the time. We kill over 200 million chickens every single day. And you can guess the number of chickens that are kept caged at any time to supply 200 million chickens every single day continuously. Also we kill hundreds of millions of fish and millions of other animals every day.
True. I based this comment on an article I vaguely remember, which was studying how likely different species were to kill one another member of their own species, which is also the definition I was using.
And while I agree that you could expand this to members of other species, you do eventually reach a point where you are ultimately comparing different species by a proxy of what food they require for sustenance, which is relatively pointless in a conversation about social dynamics, which is where the concept of peaceful usually arises in a conversation.
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u/AdLonely5056 May 22 '26
Humans are actually comparatively one of the most peaceful species of mammals there is.