
The Scale of Consumption: Do We Even Realize What We’re Doing?
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We walk into Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods—rows of stocked shelves, mountains of packaged meat, oceans of bottled water.
It’s normal. It’s convenient.
But step back for a second and ask yourself:
How much of this actually exists in the world?
🔎 A single Costco has a few pallets of canned tuna.
🔎 Multiply that by thousands of Costcos worldwide.
🔎 Now add Walmart, Target, and every other grocery chain.
🔎 Factor in restaurants, gas stations, vending machines, convenience stores.
💀 How many tuna are being ripped from the ocean every second?
🍗 How many chickens are being slaughtered just so someone can order a 12-piece wing combo?
🥩 How many cows need to be raised—fed, slaughtered, packaged—just to keep grocery store coolers stocked?
🚨 The numbers don’t just add up… they EXPLODE.
🌎 Every year, 70 BILLION land animals are slaughtered for food.
🌊 The fishing industry removes 1-2 TRILLION fish annually.
🗑️ Over a THIRD of all food produced is WASTED.
Let that sink in.
The way we consume isn’t just excessive—it’s apocalyptic.
We don’t see the destruction.
➡️ We don’t think about the hundreds of billions of chickens bred, raised, and slaughtered—just to be tossed in the deep fryer.
➡️ We don’t realize entire species of fish are being wiped out to keep up with our demand for sushi and tuna sandwiches.
➡️ We don’t question how much land, water, and fuel is being burned to ship fruit across the world—only for it to rot in a landfill.
We have zero concept of what it actually takes to maintain this system.
Because we don’t see the factory farms.
We don’t see the deforested land.
We don’t see the oceans being emptied.
We just see the end result—a perfectly packaged product
🚛 The Consumption Conveyor Belt
What happens when you multiply this level of consumption by 8 billion people?
We’ve built an economic system where:
⚠️ “Success” is measured in selling MORE—not in sustainability.
⚠️ Corporations design food for addiction—not nutrition.
⚠️ Waste isn’t an accident—it’s BUILT INTO the system to drive profit.
When was the last time you saw a company telling people to buy LESS?
You haven’t.
Because that goes against the profit model.
🛑 The Problem Isn’t Just What We Consume—It’s How We THINK About Consumption.
🚨 A bucket of chicken wings = 6 birds.
🚨 A single tuna melt = hundreds of fish dying in commercial nets.
🚨 A McDonald’s burger = deforestation, methane emissions, and a slaughterhouse production line.
We consume LIFE at a scale that isn’t just unsustainable—it’s out of control.
And it’s NOT about guilt-tripping.
This isn’t about vegan vs. carnivore or personal food choices.
This is about reality.
This is about awareness.
💡 Where does our food come from?
💡 How much of it is sustainable?
💡 At what point does consumption cross the line into destruction?
Most people never ask these questions.
Because the system is designed to keep us blind.
But once you SEE the scale of consumption…
You can’t unsee it.

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