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Originally posted by beemk
people always cry about lobsters feeling pain from the 5 seconds before they die when you boil them.... but never seem to mention in the grocery store when they sit in a tank for a week with no food and starve because if they are fed they shit in the tank and make the water dirty.
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I've bought some lobsters and put them back in the ocean before.
We live in a fucked up world where everything has to eat something else to stay alive unfortunately. I was watching a show showing how lobsters kill to eat so its not like they don't inflict pain and death on other creatures as well.
I have a hard time dealing with a lot of it. But what can we do?
The worldwide number of animals killed for food in 2000 was 45 billion, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. This included 306 million cattle, buffalo, and calves, 1.2 billion pigs, 795 million sheep and goats, and 42.7 billion chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese. The figures exclude some small countries and 'non-slaughter' deaths, which are generally not reported.
These Figures Do Not Include Fish.
So about 150 Million animals are slaughtered every day to feed the world. That's over 6 Million per hour. 100,000 per minute.
