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Basically any supermarket meat then? https://top5ofanything.com/list/535cb238/Most-Common-Types-o... (actually a little surprised to see sheep/duck ahead of pig)

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So from that page I did a rough calculation - the following is in billions of tons of the animals alive in 2006:

Chickens 34 Cattle 560 Sheep 70 Ducks 2 Pigs 75 Total 741 (animals)

Humans 420

Looks like there are nearly two measures of livestock weight for every one of humans.

~7.6 billion humans weigh 420 billion tons? That would mean the average human weighs 55 tons! Talk about an epidemic of extreme morbid obesity!

Good spotting, for humans that's Million tons.

It's going to be quite some time until humans weigh 55 tons, but if you interpret the graph like people pitching to investors like to, we'll get there.

Measured in whole-population calorie throughout, is there a more successful species than cattle? They even managed to breed (in their own passive, patient way) a large group of their bipedal accomplices into greater compatibility/dependence.

I'm picturing several classic movies remade from the cows' perspective. Logan's Run would be the obvious choice, but I could also see a bovine Charlton Heston shouting You've gotta tell 'em! BEEF IS COW! We gotta stop them! Somehow! Listen! Listen to me… MOOOOOO!!

This was more or less the premise of Chicken Run, which sets The Great Escape in a chicken farm.

pig is a no-go in muslim culture, which constitutes a large part of the world population.

The duck thing seems to be entirely dependent on china consuming more ducks than pigs, which is very surprising for me.

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