It’s also worth noting that a profession where you spend every day in close proximity of cows is very common. Meanwhile, a profession that regularly has you in close proximity of sharks is way more niche. Make of this what you want.
There are 3 types of lies.
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A lie.
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A god damn lie.
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And statistics.
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Shark milking is one of the most dangerous professions out there. It doesn’t surprise me that the industry is under reporting deaths.
Just Me, killing 300 a year (͡•_ ͡• )
Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow had the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.
*she’d
humans killing thousands of sharks per year
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humans killing millions of cows per year
Where did you get these numbers? A quick search engine look up is giving me far higher numbers.
100 million sharks are killed by humans each year vs 300 million cows.
This comment sent me into a little rabbit hole.
In the US alone, humans kill, on average, 1 cow per second (over 33 million a year). That is including calves.
edit: In the US alone, humans kill, on average 1 shark per 10 seconds (over 3 million a year).
I imagine the US is not killing a lot of sharks. At least not intentionally (ignoring pollution or accidents.)
There is a bigger market than you think. Shark meat is part of Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Hawaiian food culture. You can find dozens of different shark products in grocery store, and that’s not including pet food. It can hide under different names like white fish or ocean fish.
So I would guess from high hundreds of thousand to low millions.Dug deeper, it is estimated around 300 to 500 thousands from shark fisheries. But, 2.5 to 5 million from bycatch…Their is also recreational fishing. Which is responsible for 100 to 150 thousands shark killings per year.
So that’s a comfortable 3 to 5 million a year in the US alone…
And coincidentally, there is some scandal happening now about critically endangered shark meat sold under false labels.
https://gbej.org/americans-unknowingly-consume-endangered-toxic-shark-meat/
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Mosquitoes: 🥷
“Hehe check me out I’m gonna [[give that dumbass a diesease]] and he won’t even realize it”
Stairs killing 600k a year.
If true, guns would be real jealous
The cows kill count would go up even more if you count air/water pollution and food borne illnesses caused by their manure on produce
Do tell how that works. Are you imagining herds of cows roaming among the lettuce rows?
Here’s an FDA report on a Romain lettuce E. coli outbreak that resulted in 5 deaths. There’s a couple of ways E. coli can get from cow intestines to lettuce: cow manure gets into irrigation canals/streams, and a downstream farm uses that to water their crops; manure used for fertilizer is not properly treated; cows get into farm fields that they shouldn’t be in. Lettuce is particularly susceptible because it is often eaten raw.
The shark kill count would go up way more if we started milking them on an industrial scale.
Shark fins are sadly harvested on an industrial scale :(
@[email protected] vs me?
Yes! Kill more!
