One problem: This website doesn't adjust for time. For example, the turkeys killed per minute is much higher in Thanksgiving than outside of Thanksgiving (like right now).
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#13The page is a neat and useful visual exercise until the chickens section which just completely breaks all my browsers.
Interestingly, no problem at all with an iPhone SE, a phone packed with 5-year-old technology.
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#14One problem: This website doesn't adjust for time. For example, the turkeys killed per minute is much higher in Thanksgiving than outside of Thanksgiving (like right now).
I'm sure they just take they daily average throughout a year, and don't account for cyclical events. So they are probably over-counting on a daily basis and under-counting on holidays.
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#15Just wish it was illegal to show smiling chickens on chicken packs. It desensitize people from treating meat as previously living beings.
Ideally each animal product comes with the imagery like one you get now on cigarette packs (but of an animal in a cage/slaughterhouse) + appropriate cost increases for welfare.
Recent law introduction of putting 1, 2, 3 stars on animal product packages to signify how well animal was treated is great start but we can do so much better as species coexisting in this planet with every other animal.
In my eyes it all starts with education and awareness of alternative plant based diet but government enforced help would be great too.
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#16Uncomfortable thoughts: Let's say first world countries in the West get on board with not eating meat anymore. How do you exactly go about telling impoverished countries/peoples to stop eating meat? Would we ban meat and force them to eat some substitutes? But food is an important part of culture and we would be erasing their culture if we did that wouldn't we? Should we give some cultural groups the right to eat meat since they're less privileged? Of course I'm only speaking hypothetically, assuming that the goal is to reach 0 animals killed for human consumption.
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#17Why don't they count the bacteria killed to make cheese?
They're not cute. People don't connect with them.
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#18The page is a neat and useful visual exercise until the chickens section which just completely breaks all my browsers.
Well become a vegetarian and maybe it will run better /s
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#19Not too much different from animals that die in nature. Birds: 15 per second is about right.
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#20Would be interesting to have the opposite, animals bred since opening this page
That's shown on the left side of your browser.