Why I am not a vegan

[Minyatur]

I've already told you the meat I consume is no longer a 2D consciousness upon which I can infringe. It can either be consumed or be left to waste.

You can't affect that animal who is already dead. But how many animals is your choice affecting next year, and the year after that, and 10 years after that?

Let's do the math:

According to recently published data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and several other official sources, 59 billion animals died to feed Americans in 2009. The average American meat eater was responsible for about 198 deaths in 2009. Over a lifetime, this amounts to 15,000 animals per meat eater.

http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welf...9YooF.dpuf

Let's do the math:

59 billion is expressed thusly: 59,000,000,000

Using an online calculator, multiply that by 12% (.12) = 7,198,000,000

That's a decrease of over 7 BILLION animals per YEAR! Just in the US!

The US has a population of 319 million. The numbers of vegetarians and vegans is growing rapidly.

A single meat-eater can't affect the animals already killed. But s/he CAN affect the animals Not yet killed!

Collectively, we've already reduced the number by over 7 BILLION!

Approximately 198 per year, per person! 15,000 over a lifetime!

Each person's choice IS important! Mathematically significant!

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Those are just pretty numbers, if you think that if one of those americans by dying at the beginning of the year would have caused 198 less deaths then that is very naive, the average would simply be slightly bigger.