• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    This makes no sense… It says pets aren’t included.

    There are 500-700 million dogs worldwide. There are only just under 59 million horses.

    I don’t believe any of this as a result.

    Edit: and 35 million camels …and only a billion cattle. This entire thing is demonstrably bullshit.

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      5 months ago

      700 million dogs x 17 kg per dog = 12 Mt of dog

      59 million horses x 700 kg per horse = 41 Mt of horse

      If horses are 2%, then dogs are 0.5%, less than 1% just like they said

      35 million camels x 500 kg per camel = 17 Mt of camel, a little less than 1%

      I think the key thing is they’re measuring biomass, not just the number of animals, otherwise it would all be stuff like mice and rats (not to say that wouldn’t be a valid thing to look at also)

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      5 months ago

      BioMASS is not about the number of animals but about their mass. Sure there’s a lot of dogs and cats but they don’t weigh as much as a camel.