How many animals' lives does a vegetarian save in a year?

Question

Please source your answer too:)

thanks.

Answer 1

"A vegetarian" doesn't save any animals.

The **millions** of vegetarians in this world will eventually prevent billions of animals from ever being born and suffering the fate of factory farming through our choices in our lifetimes and our influence over future generations.

Once an animal is born, there is little to no chance that it will be "saved".

Answer 2

I've read in a magazine that vegetarians save over 95 lives per year.  It was in a PETA add.  I've also seen this somewhere else, but I can't remember where....

Answer 3

About 500.

Answer 4

the average vegetarian saves around 100 animals a year. school teacher told us, trust me, she got it from a dependable source! LOL!

Answer 5

every vegetarian saves the lives of about 100 animals each year.

heres my source:

http://www.peta2.com/

look at the very bottom left hand corner of the page, it has a cow with the number of animals vegeterians have saved today, and next to it says how many a vegeterian saves in a year. hope this helped!

Answer 6

taken from my source: For example, take the case of The 200 Million Consumers. There are 200 million consumers, each of whom eats 50 farmed animals each year. In this market, there are only ten possible annual outputs of animals for farmers: one billion animals, two billion, and so on, up to ten billion. The difference between each of these annual outputs -- one billion -- is the smallest unit of demand perceivable to the farmer and is thus the threshold unit. Since there are 20 million customers per threshold unit, and only one of these customers will actually complete the unit of which his other purchase is a part, the probability of my completing a unit is one in 20 million. That means by buying meat for the year, an individual has a one-in-20 million chance of affecting the production and slaughter of one billion animals. The expected consequence is then one-20-millionth times one billion, which equals 50 — that is, raising and slaughtering 50 animals per year. Given the horrors of today's animal agriculture, that is a substantial consequence. These hypothetical numbers are close to the actual numbers for meat production and consumption in the United States.  

Answer 7

None. Every animal in a farm today will suffer the same fate. You can equate a figure by working out your intake of protien, but it is difficult to equate if you save anything. If there is a glut of meat on the market the price would fall. It may be at some point in the future someone would breed less animals, but what were produced would meet the same fate.

Answer 8

Your not saving any animal that is alive right now.  What do you think there is some space of land where the 100 animals saved by each veg end up?  No.  Whatever is here will become meat.  You could argue that vegans and vegetarians drive the market down a tiny bit, but then you are just sending the lowest brood cow in the herd to market cuz the farmer will cull her.  And then there's this thing called export, where all the extra food and stuff gets sent away.  Whatever you don't eat ends up across the sea, still being eaten.  Farmers aren't like "oh well susie is a veg now so I have to let a steer go to the wild."  Just so you aren't mislead and all.

Answer 9

Zero, zip, nada unless physically save an animal yourself.

Your diet  if you are a vegetarian does not contribute to utilizing animals for food. But that's it. The animals you don't eat are being killed to serve someone else. Because at current numbers, there are not enough vegetarians to either affect demand or affect production. For example, meat consumption in the US had increased oer person over the last five years.

The 100 animals a year saved is myth being spread by pro vegetarian groups as feel good inspiration. If it works for you though, then by all means, believe in it.

Answer 10

none.

and while you vegetarians are complaining about meat saying how it's unfair to the animals but what about the children in africa? or hati? or other places that don't have anything to eat? they would be lucky to eat half a cow...

plus those pro vegetarian sites..

ARE FEEDING YOU FREAKIN PROPAGANDA! go find some charts from the UN or government and i bet the answer will be 0.

so

stop beleiving the hype ..