Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by holbue on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:58PM
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Would love to see statistics from the other perspective: Which animals are killed most by humans? Besides insects, I would guess fish and chicken are quite high...
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Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by robbrown451 on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:14PM
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Does this include dust mites in the vacuum cleaner or washing machine?
Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by agumonkey on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:18PM
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you mean farmed animals or wild ones ?
Re:Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
by derefr on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:28PM
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In that case, depending on the framing, you might care more about the balance of animals killed by humans vs. animals caused-to-exist by humans. (Or you might think both of those things are bad. Negative utilitarians don’t much like chicken farming, given the large number of chicken lives and the large amount of suffering in each life.)