It’s also worth noting that a profession where you spend every day in close proximity to cows is very common. Meanwhile, a profession that regularly has you in close proximity to sharks is way more niche. Make of this what you want.
Shark milking is one of the most dangerous professions out there. It doesn’t surprise me that the industry is under reporting deaths.
Mosquitoes: “those are rookie numbers.”
Mosquitoes may kill the most people per year, but they aren’t nearly as terrifying as screw worms
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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).
I imagine the US is not killing a lot of sharks. At least not intentionally (ignoring pollution or accidents.)
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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I have been herding cows upwards in the mountainside. I have had a cow slip and fall onto me, luckily only onto my legs before running off. I could easily see how such accidents would kill a lot of people every year.
A cow slipping and falling on you would be one hell of a way to die
Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow had the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.
They wouldn’t. They can’t eat meat, it would kill them.
That however wouldn’t stop a cow from getting their revenge.
*she’d
It’s a quote from an episode of the Simpsons. I don’t know who wrote that but I left it verbatim.
