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DrTonyTiger t1_j2zqyvd wrote

A major weakness of the analysis is limiting it to domesticated fowl and mammals. Commerical fish and shellfish provide meat as well. But the most individual animals eaten by people are insects and some other small invertebrates. Not knowingly, but those animals are heading down people's guts and need to be included in the answer to the OPs headline question.

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tules t1_j30jzrv wrote

I'd question how meaningful it would be to have thousands of crickets etc on the graph too though. At that point you'd have to base it on biomass, but OP is just working with the data he had available to him.

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DrTonyTiger t1_j31bqnx wrote

One of the requirements for making a data presentation beautiful is that it clearly answers the question being asked. This graphic clearly fails to do so.

Since OP does not have the data to answer that question, it would be appropriate to change the question and headline to align with what can be done.

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