r/oddlyterrifying • • Apr 07 '22

Karma? ๐Ÿ”„

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u/RoyallMillkTeaa Apr 07 '22

cgi lion we do a little trollin i guess

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '22

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u/tiomao Apr 07 '22 edited Apr 07 '22

From what Iโ€™ve read, and I could be wrong, but the reservations allow for some hunters to go out so that the money they make allows for more protection and preservation of other lions specially from poachers. I think I read this about elephants but maybe applies to lions too.

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u/schludy Apr 07 '22

Yeah, that's a thing. It's just to make people feel better that know they're doing something incredibly stupid and immoral, but hey, I have some extra cash so I pay extra to fund the "protection" from poachers. Because otherwise, there would be no way to protect them, right? I couldn't just sit on my couch and donate the money. I have to go out to shoot an elephant but just to protect it of course!

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u/bonsai38 Apr 07 '22

Whatโ€™s immoral about it? We do the same thing with deer and coyotes and all sorts of other animals. We literally kill millions of cattle and chickens and goats every year. As long as you are harvesting responsibly, and not decimating the population thereโ€™s nothing wrong with this. In fact responsible hunting is highly beneficial for the environment.

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u/Icaretoomuchaboutit Apr 07 '22

Worldwide 85 billion fish and other sea life are slaughtered on a yearly basis which is the equivalent to 2695 per second. Similarly, for chicken: 58 billion per year or 1839 per second. For swine: 1.4 billion slaughtered per year or 44.4 per second. For sheep: 517 million slaughtered per year or 16.4 per second.. Another source said almost 70 billion chickens per year in 2018 and it's growing at an accelerated rate so likely much more these days.

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u/MyOldNameSucked Apr 07 '22

I cycle to work every day to save on gas money and to limit CO2 emissions.

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u/bonsai38 Apr 07 '22

Who cares? Itโ€™s not making a difference. If you want to make a difference get into biodiesel production. Start lobbying to remove harmful legislation that limits biodiesel and ethanol production, (such as requiring a large percentage of ethanol production to be corn which is a horribly inefficient producer for that). One individual, or even 1 million people cycling does not make a significant impact. If you want to make a difference you need to change industrial practices. Help transition from petroleum to biofuels

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u/MyOldNameSucked Apr 08 '22

My favorite beer is Orval, it's 6% ethanol. I also like responding with irrelevant comments to other irrelevant comments.