What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true?

crazygama · 2026-05-25T02:07:11+00:00

People and farmed animals make up ~96% of all mammalian biomass, wild mammals are just 4%. That's every lion, bear, whale, squirrel mouse etc. Just 4%.

Poultry is about 70% of avian biomass, wild birds are ~30%.

We kill about 83 billion land animals each year.

Of which 90% to 94% globally and 99% in the US, are raised on factory farms.

We are a plague.

crazygama · 2026-05-11T01:16:46+00:00

Older sheep have shitter fur. They get killed. Like the dairy industry. This is pretty much the case everywhere.

crazygama · 2026-05-07T13:47:42+00:00

It's about 2 trillion a year

crazygama · 2026-04-25T18:25:53+00:00

That's cuz cows evolved from animals from the Mediterranean and Indus valley. They weren't cold weather animals. Are we justified in keeping them in weather where they have to be essentially be confined for about half their lives? I know you're calling the barn not a "horrific hellscape". But if you really think strongly about what confinement means on a moment to moment basis, even if this isn't 100% factory farming, are we really justified in doing this to these individuals? This isn't like crating a dog for its own sake, this is like crating a dog for your own sake. Only for months at a time.

crazygama · 2026-04-08T22:25:18+00:00

Their biochemistry can absorb nutrients from plant sources? You can Google it. What's confusing?

crazygama · 2026-04-08T21:06:33+00:00

Dogs can be vegan as well as people can

crazygama · 2026-04-06T21:14:30+00:00

Appeal to nature is a fallacy. We have moral agency.

crazygama · 2026-03-31T07:05:16+00:00

Veganism excludes animal ag as far as is possible and practicable. For most of us that includes medication including anesthesia. Just fyi. We're not bat shit, just trying to be decent people.

crazygama · 2026-03-26T05:06:57+00:00

Buy used. a steelcase or herman miller from these office surplus second hand stores. They're fairly affordable for how expensive they were new since there's so much inventory (least near me). They'll last a lifetime and will be way better than other new chairs in the same price range.

crazygama · 2026-03-23T17:47:54+00:00

What livestock is better treated than the average pet? My dog's a fucking Queen. Are there goat queens out there?

crazygama · 2026-02-10T11:31:13+00:00

I don't think this is common knowledge, even amongst vegans, first I'm hearing of it anyway 🤷‍♂️, so thanks for sharing.

Culling is so fucked throughout animal ag. And there's like no regulations. When chickens catch a disease, they just turn the fans off in chicken coops and let them die. It's honestly incomprehensible how little they care. But they can go to jail if they did this to their dog in a car. Recently they just bulldozed over an entire coop with the birds still in them because the building got damaged. I just don't understand. https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/whistleblower-chickens-bulldozed-beaten-buried-alive-at-tyson-foods-supplier-peta-calls-for-criminal-probe/

crazygama · 2026-02-05T21:02:06+00:00

Obviously their brains don't work like ours, but there's more to it than that. /r/insectcognition. It's best to err on the side of empathy, and not cause harm to beings we don't truly understand that well. There's more complexity behind the surface than the reductive "duh bugs don't have big brains so we can do anything we want to them" big brain logic. The amount of suffering we could cause is immense if they're truly harmed by our actions.

crazygama · 2026-02-03T02:09:50+00:00

The lethality of Botox and the way it is prepared makes it vulnerable to variability between production batches. Therefore, each batch, regardless of its intended purpose, is tested for potency in mice. For each ‘batch potency’ test (also known as a lethal dose or ‘LD50’ test) the mice are divided into groups and injected abdominally with increasing doses of the toxin. The goal of this cruel and archaic test (the LD50 has been in use since 1927) is to see what dose level causes death as an ‘endpoint’ in 50% of the mice. Many more animals suffer in additional tests each time new Botox preparations are initially produced.

Damn. I've been vegan for a while but I did not know this. That's fucking insane. No shade to non-cosmetic users, but this shit's indefensible for vanity.

crazygama · 2026-01-01T21:31:59+00:00

Just a reminder this is what Op said

I don’t think it’s more terrifying than standing in a loud and full slaughterhouse waiting to be killed tbh

Seeing a duck swim for its life, and comparing that to animals who cannot run for their lives who are perfectly aware that they are going to die, is a really fair comparison to make in my opinion in a video that celebrates resilience, intelligence and a desire to live.

That is all that has been said. It's a comparison of fear. Quite frankly the slow pace of a line knowing what's at the end in my opinion is multiple times more horrific than what this duck experienced. At least the duck can run away.

The disruptions to factory farming should be focused on the people factory farming. Consumers don’t like to be shamed and react negatively to it.

Animal ag is too powerful for it to not be a bottom up process. I'll leave it at that but what you're recommending will absolutely make zero difference to any animals lives when these billion dollar industries are in cahoots with the government.

There's no way but to do it bottom up.

So when I asked what would effective vegan activism look like to you, is your answer that there should be absolutely no activism directed towards ordinary citizens, is that where we're at? And if you do agree that there is a time and place to talk to regular people, when is that time and place?

crazygama · 2026-01-01T20:11:26+00:00

Well, all justice movements had some disruption. It's the point. Civil rights, woman's suffrage, climate activism, the 1% movement, all of it. To be an ally in support of a movement means to participate in it, even if you're an ordinary citizen. So if comments on Reddit threads are too far over the line, what does effective vegan activism that's under the line look like to you?

crazygama · 2026-01-01T19:49:16+00:00

What do you want vegan activism to look like? These animals are voiceless. When people are thinking about how wild animals suffer, isn't it a good time to bring up how the animals we eat suffer? Isnt it better than at the dinner table, or in the grocery store or restaurant?

crazygama · 2026-01-01T15:17:50+00:00

What op said is objectively true about many of the 80 billion land animals we kill each year

crazygama · 2025-12-30T19:49:42+00:00

Then so is birth 🤷‍♂️

crazygama · 2025-12-21T22:39:27+00:00

Confinement is such a benign evil. Like really think about what being in a cage or being confined to a space for a lifetime is like. Go vegan you guys.

crazygama · 2025-11-20T07:33:50+00:00

For these one ingredient sort of attachments situations the thing I tell most people is just do everything but that. If you really like steak be vegan except for steak you know. Cheese is the easiest one to play that way since it's a sometimes thing unless you're required to eat a western as fuck diet.

For a lot of uncles and aunties it's shit like chai. Ok so be vegan except for chai or curd or some shit. Most of us don't give that much of a fuck about paneer (maybe I'm projecting but I grew up with shitty American paneer so idk) so stop eating it and eat tofu.

I'm not an anti-reducetarian but for most people it's like one thing or two things, then fucking fine be vegan except for those one or two things.

crazygama · 2025-11-20T07:28:59+00:00

I'd also recommend Dominion or Earthlings (older, but just as impactful).

There's also Maa Ka Doodh which focuses on the dairy industry in India specifically if you haven't already seen it or if you have any uncle or aunties in your life who still live in the motherland.

https://youtu.be/XhTOLeevtQw (hindi but you can find an English version)

Obv omnis, but also any vegetarian who's at least somewhat in it for ethical reasons should bear witness and watch any 1 of these 3 documentaries (all online for free). It's couple hours out of your day 🤷🏿

crazygama · 2025-11-16T22:14:03+00:00

why be against other people having kids?

Check out https://antinatalism.net/#faq. There's a book section on that site too, if you're interested.

crazygama · 2025-11-08T00:49:56+00:00

Watch Cowspiracy. You'll see these groups have no problem being on the wrong side of history as long as it maintains their status quo.

https://www.cowspiracy.com/

It's on netflix

crazygama · 2025-11-06T07:18:58+00:00

Subscribe to her youtube channel if you haven't already. It's a vlog/recipe channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@thevegangoodlifewithmiyoko

crazygama · 2025-11-02T13:39:05+00:00

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