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Originally Posted by basschick
70,000? a lot? there are is it 3 million humans in the u.s. alone. so no, i'd say 70,000 is not a lot.
besides, there are SO many animals used for food. i can't quite imagine why they can't live without this one, too.
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According to the CIA World Factbook, as of July, 2005, there were approximately 6,446,131,400 people on the planet, and the death rate was approximately 8.78 deaths per 1,000 people a year. According to our nifty desktop calculator, that works out to roughly 56,597,034 people leaving us every year. That's about a 155,000 a day.
Sooo. 8.78 x 70 (because 70,000 whales) = 614.60
614.60/30 = 20%
So the amount of whales killed would be 80% less than that of humans dying, (by ratio of living to dying). And humans aren't really going extinct now are they?
So I think that killing 30 of 70,000 is a very small #
Of course you have to keep in mind I am not accounting for the natural deaths of the whales, so the 80% is obviously too high.