alt Hacker News> Cattle outweighs the total livestock on this planet by a 10 to 1 factor.
It seems odd not to include cattle in total livestock.
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collinmanderson • last Thursday at 3:03 PM
Yeah that seems phrased wrong, but here's xkcd visual: https://xkcd.com/1338/
The point is to emphasize that there's more cows on this planet using more resources than all of the other animals combined (excluding fish and water mammals).
You could add all the squirrels, elephants, lions, cats, birds, all of those, and you're not even at a fraction of mass of the cows we grow.