• perishthethought@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    3.5 billion birds are killed in North America per year? I didn’t know anywhere near that number even existed.

    But then again…

    Wikipedia says there are about 7.5 million square miles in the US and Canada, so that’s over 400 birds killed per square mile, per year, on average.

    That’s amazing, no?

    • Match!!@pawb.social
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      7 months ago

      Misconception. Birdkiller Georg has 3 billion dead birds a year and is also known as New York City

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        7 months ago

        I checked again and yeah, it’s more like 9.5 million square miles, so an average of more like 370 bird deaths per square mile, per year. But now that I know that includes chickens and turkeys, and Mexico and Greenland and the Bahamas, it’s OK.

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      7 months ago

      There are more than 8 billion chickens slaughtered every year in the US alone, to give some perspective.