Link to the study in question.
TediousLength
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There is a bigger market than you think. Shark meat is part of Asian, Caribbean, Latino, and Hawaiian food culture. You can find dozens of different shark products in grocery store, and that's not including pet food. It can hide under different names like white fish or ocean fish. ~~So I would guess from high hundreds of thousand to low millions.~~ Dug deeper, it is estimated around 300 to 500 thousands from shark fisheries. But, 2.5 to 5 million from bycatch...
Their is also recreational fishing. Which is responsible for 100 to 150 thousands shark killings per year.
So that's a comfortable 3 to 5 million a year in the US alone...
And coincidentally, there is some scandal happening now about critically endangered shark meat sold under false labels.
https://gbej.org/americans-unknowingly-consume-endangered-toxic-shark-meat/
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This comment sent me into a little rabbit hole.
In the US alone, humans kill, on average, 1 cow per second (over 33 million a year). That is including calves.
edit: In the US alone, humans kill, on average 1 shark per 10 seconds (over 3 million a year).
Well... That's poor/broke adulting. When you're born with a golden spoon in your ass, you're whole house (read mansion) is run by what is called the help. You pay people to sort your shit out. Your kids are raised by nannies, and for the weekend you go to your seaside house on a semiprivate island in your private jet.
Great read! Haven't had a laugh like this in a while. Fucking idiot!
Just be happy you saw it.
Hoarding can be a trauma behavior. Their can be many more reasons for becoming a hoarder. There is also more than one way of hoarding. It is more a spectrum than a set standard behavior.
Oh yeah this Guy is gonna get beat up. Watch him play the transphobic/hate crime card when it'll happen
Oooh such a beautiful void. Looks like lots of love and mischief ;P
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Watched a good ten minutes of Incubus. I speak a couple Latin and Germanic languages, and it sounded like a weird mix of European languages. Could definitively understand some of it.
It's in Esperanto!