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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Kurzgesagt explores the complex health, environmental, and ethical impacts of global meat consumption and factory farming.

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iN7h33nDin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds”

Many sources would beg to differ about meat not being a problem. link to this video (Sources: link ) So even if FAO got it wrong, I just don't see beef not being a problem.
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On “Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching”

…ter we're gone. It is literally fine to use humans for sustenance if everyone collectively agrees it's fine, by the way. People have done it. link You could argue "Well, that was survival. Besides, those people were already dead." Literally every animal born into factory farming is already dead. They just don't realize it yet. I think linking to link to this video is probably your best bet at even getting people to stop and think about the question at all. Yet if even Kurzgesagt's eloquence doesn't make a dent (I still scarf down pork steaks on a regular basis), what hope do you have here? Once you internalize all of this, perhaps you'll be in a frame of mind to realize that it was off-topic to bring…
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50723in Skeptics Stack Exchange • Mentions

Could we nourish an additional 3.5 billion people if we just ate the stuff we feed to animals? In a popular YouTube video titled "link to this video" by the channel Kurzgesagt, they claim: According to projections, we could nourish an additional 3.5 billion people if we just ate the stuff we feed to animals. The source for information is a research paper titled: Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare, from which there is this example: China feeds more people than India per cropland hectare with 8.4 people fed with delivered calories, albeit with a lower calorie delivery fraction of 62%. If all produced calories were food, that number would rise substanti…
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arendtioin Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Animal Is Tired”

> ... it is the only animal I have ever treated this way. I wonder if that is actually true. I am thinking about this video and how we humans are treating all the other animals on this planet: link to this video Sure the text is about something different, but at times I do wonder how cruel we are and how little we think about it. I like to imagine seeing some aliens doing to us what we are doing to all the animals.
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