What the hell did we do to the turkeys to make them grow to that size in two months? (I probably don’t want to know.)
Idk about turkeys but broiler hens (hens bred for slaughter) frequently grow so fast their bones don’t get strong enough to support their own weight.
It is horrifying.
Pretty sure most birds grow to full size in a few months, so turkeys just grow to their human modified bodies in the same time period they would have grown to their natural size.
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I know their lives are cut way short, but do you happen to have a source on this?
It doesn’t matter because without them being born for meat they would live 0 years. No one is going to pay to feed an animal for 20 years when the prime butchering time is far less than that. It’s a huge waste of money and creation of greenhouse gases.
Cows wouldn’t exist if humans didn’t eat them or use them for labor. End of story.
If you’re making the argument that more of a being is always morally better than less, that is even more ridiculous than a conclusion from utilitarianism called “mere addition” or “the repugnant conclusion” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox
If we applied this logic to humans we would end up in a nightmare world.
The only good human is a human I can eat? I kinda like where that is going
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I guess wars and murder etc are ok then. The victims just never should’ve been born!
Are these their life expectancies in the wild? Or natural lifespan in captivity?
“Animals that people consume were killed as babies or toddlers, relative to their natural lifespan.”
Well human life expectancy is 70 years, so:
Cow - 17.5
Sheep - 2.3
Pig - 2.3
Turkey - 1.2
Duck - 5.3
Chicken - 13.1So that holds for most of the animals listed, but not cows or chickens.
Anyways, fact checking time. Quick googling[1] says that the life expectancy of these animals is actually:
Cow - 20
Sheep - 12
Pig - 12
Turkey - 10
Duck - 12
Chicken - 7So that would make the human-scaled ages be:
Cow - 17.5
Sheep - 3.9
Pig - 2.9
Turkey - 1.2
Duck - 4.4
Chicken - 15.0Hope this helps anyone curious about the data.
Yeah, I don’t have a robust source, but neither does the image. ↩︎
This is awesome. It should be mentioned though that every animal ages differently. So the relative age is purely chronologically scaled, not scaled developmentally to its own species.
also like, who wants to live to 51? everyone that’s 50…
I don’t think dairy cows are slaughtered that young, meat cows definitely are (often younger)
No, that’s about right by my understanding. Dairy cows are typically impregnated annually from 1 year old onward to keep milk production at maximum, which continues until their bodies physically give out, around five or six years, after which they’re slaughtered for their flesh as they’re no longer useful.
Beef cows are around 1-2 I believe
The beef I buy from a local farmer is 2-3 years old steer
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Mature meat is tough and lower quality. pedophilic carnivorism
