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This makes no sense... It says pets aren't included.
There are 500-700 million dogs worldwide. There are only just under 59 million horses.
I don't believe any of this as a result.
Edit: and 35 million camels ...and only a billion cattle. This entire thing is demonstrably bullshit.
700 million dogs x 17 kg per dog = 12 Mt of dog
59 million horses x 700 kg per horse = 41 Mt of horse
If horses are 2%, then dogs are 0.5%, less than 1% just like they said
35 million camels x 500 kg per camel = 17 Mt of camel, a little less than 1%
I think the key thing is they're measuring biomass, not just the number of animals, otherwise it would all be stuff like mice and rats (not to say that wouldn't be a valid thing to look at also)
BioMASS is not about the number of animals but about their mass. Sure there's a lot of dogs and cats but they don't weigh as much as a camel.