• Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    “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 - 13.1

    So 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 - 7

    So that would make the human-scaled ages be:
    Cow - 17.5
    Sheep - 3.9
    Pig - 2.9
    Turkey - 1.2
    Duck - 4.4
    Chicken - 15.0

    Hope this helps anyone curious about the data.

    1. Yeah, I don’t have a robust source, but neither does the image. ↩︎

    • Shou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      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.