• Wogi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Imagine all of those straws in a single pile. 3000 tons of straws.

    Now imagine a pile 200 times larger. That’s what the fishing industry is doing.

    We’re moving sand piles while they’re building pyramids.

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      3 months ago

      The fishing industry is a fucking eldritch abomination. It puts everything else to shame. Fun fact, we kill roughly a hundred billion land animals for food every year across the world. But if you want an estimate on how many animals we kill total, you can just ignore that entirely because the answer is around 1 to 3 trillion fish, depending on how you estimate it.