More vegans please!
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I think it means lives, as in you don’t eat a whole pig but if you have some bacon that could come from one or more pigs that have had to be murdered for you
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A chicken would have been more reasonable, it’s definitely possible to eat an entire chicken every day.
I actually had this gym bro coworker that would eat a rotisserie chicken as his lunch every day.
I’m confused by the number too, but not in the same way y’all are. I was thinking in terms of if I have a bacon cheeseburger and some chicken nuggets, that’s three lives that had to end. So a single life seems very low.
But those three lives are divided between all the people who ate them. They don’t just wait for you to order, kill a cow for one cheeseburger, and throw the rest away.
A chicken yields about 4lbs of meat, and McNuggets weigh about 16g, which works out to about 20 5-piece meals (assuming no fillers and disregarding the breading).
A pig yields about 16lbs of bacon, and each slice weighs about an ounce, which works out to about 250 slices, or 125 2-slice portions (ignoring about 120lb of other cuts, and assuming generously sized slices). If we include the other cuts, that’s an additional 240 8oz portions of sausage, roast, chops, etc.
A cow yields about 700lbs of beef, which works out to 2800 quarter pound patties.
So altogether: 1 cow, 22 pigs, and 140 chickens die to produce 2800 bacon cheeseburgers with a 5-piece nugget on the side. That’s 163 lives, across 2800 meals (3040 when you factor in the rest of the pork). On average, each of those lives fed 18 people.
It is much more accurate to say 5-6% of each life is on any single consumer, and that’s assuming a bacon cheeseburger with a side of nuggets. If you only eat one half pound burger and skip the bacon and nuggets, it works out to 1/1400 of a single cow’s life, or about .07%.
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Source?
idk about that image but here’s something cool to chew on: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w
thx
“@homo virido” on some platform, according to the Image
So no source.
Saving Grain? But don’t you need to eat carbs for cheap energy anyways?
That’s because cattle, pigs, and the like have to eat it, in order to be raised to the slaughterhouse, as meat…
Thermodynamics.
Plants are fed to animals. More plants than would be used if you just ate the plants yourself.
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Not really. I personally drink 132 gallons of water per day. It’s my favorite beverage. I also eat 40 pounds of raw wheat daily, it’s really tasty. I work as a logger, it makes good money. I also huff and puff like the Big Bad Wolf so my CO2 output is pretty insane. Anything to save that 1 animal though. Vegan btw
