how many animals can u save if u r vegetarien?

Question

i'm thinking of becoming 1

Answer 1

If you put together the meat that the average American eats in a year, you get 95 animals (including chicken and fish... not that you shouldn't include them in the first place, but oddly, some crazy people don't/)

Unfortunately, you won't specifically *save* the animals who are going to die this year, but the market is all about supply and demand. When fewer people demand to eat the flesh of dead animals, the fewer animals will be bred and killed the next year and the next. The more who become vegetarian, the fewer animals will die in the long run.

Answer 2

None whatsoever: for a start the meat industry is booming at the moment; secondly if enough people went veggie to actually affect the industry at all, and the demand for meat decreased, it would mean animals which were surplus to requirement. You're kidding yourself if you think that would mean they'd live happily ever after, as they couldn't be sold no one would want to keep them, and they'd still be slaughtered.
Think about it, the second farmers couldn't sell their livestock, the second they couldn't make a profit, they wouldn't keep them any more. Keeping animals isn't cheap, and to keep them, without profit, would be hugely expensive to any farmer. How many do you reckon would be prepared to make that kind of loss?
Now, what'd happen then? Maybe a few wild pigs or goats would stay alive, but for the most part it would be impossible to release them into the wild. The vast majority would have to be slaughtered.

Vegetarianism doesn't save animal's lives, it just dissociates people from their deaths.

I quote "If no one were allowed to farm animals, farms would grow crops instead. The first thing to go would be all the animals. Once the rural landscape were rid of cattle, sheep, and the like, fields would get larger, for the convenience of the combine harvesters, and hedgerows would go. Wild animals like rabbits would now be a more major pest. No farmer would want animals eating the plants, and so the war on such animals would intensify. Grown in the fields would be domesticate species of food crops, and so the number of plant species would decline."

Domestication is one of the best things that can happen to animals, from a population point of view. If the golden eagle tasted any good you can bet your life it wouldn't be nearly extinct.

Answer 3

Not too many since most people choose not to be and the general demand for meat is still very high. You should still do it though. As more people become vegan it could make a difference.

Matter of fact the amount of vegans out there now have probably made some difference. Although maybe not much if the population is growing so fast that more meat eater are spawning up that there are people turning vegan.

I'm not vegan myself but I have considered it. You want to read a great book that could help your decision get, "Fast Food nation".

Do what you feel if right. That is what's important.

Answer 4

I am also too thinking of becoming one. Although I don't have the specific answer to your question, I think it's great that you feel that way. I watched KFC Cruelty, Smithfield Pigs and the horror these poor animals go through. It's enough to have you quit meat forever. Not to mention of all the hormones and chemicals these animals are pumped up with. They say vegetarians are leaner people and healthier too.

Good Luck to you!

Answer 5

To answer the question you posted: not many. We live in a meat-eater society. One more vegetarian won't specifically save an animal. that's due to economy of scale for the meat producers. Sadly, think about how many chickens lost their lives to fill a package of frozen buffalo wings.

But you also have a unspoken question: Will I save any animals if I try?

The short answer is very many. You are a better person for thinking this. Better person for planning. Better yet for acting.

Think about the presidential pardon for a turkey on turkey, I mean Thanksgiving day. You could be donating time or money to a no-kill shelter for pets or farm animals. You could be liberating nightcrawlers whose fate was to either starve in the fridge or get cut up and put on hooks. Just buy as many boxes as you like from a bait shop and release them into some grassy lawn after sun set. (night-crawler, right?) I like to ambush bait shops and buy up as many bait as I can. This has the dubious benefit of disrupting someone's fishing plan.

Those are just examples. I'm sure you can come up with more. And save many lives.

Also, I take this perspective on vegetarian choice. After I watch Free Willy, I would find it ironic to eat whale meat. Bambi and deer steak? Dumbo and elephant steak? Ugly Duckling and peking duck? Flipper and dolphin steaks? Shark Tales and sushi?

similarly, I find it ironic to be eating beef after donating to a home for the retired milk cows. (hypothetically). Or chicken after carrying around a fertilized egg until it hatched. I once rescued a couple quails in my backyard. Stopped me from eating quail eggs.

Not so much ironic as it's harder to eat meat if I have associated with that farm animal. I consider this a sign of compassion. Only the misguided would consider this a sign of weakness. but like I noted above, this is a meat-eating society. It's an uphills battle.

Answer 6

you will save not a single animal. every animal you think you are "saving" i will probably eat, sooner or later. you are very entitled to eat whatever diet you choose. but if you are going to become a vegetarian just to "save" an animals life, you are badly misguided in your endeavor. and already i can tell by the way you misspell words that your brain isnt operating at 100% anyway.

Answer 7

Probably none. Meat is still produced at the same rate, but that shouldn't stop you. People generally become vegetarians because they don't believe in eating animals that were raised to kill for profit or because they find it healthier.

Answer 8

like all the other people say, you don't really save them... but hey, supply and demand! if people around you see that you stop and they want to stop too, then soon less and less animals will be killed since less and less people want to eat them, so being veggie won't go to nothing! it'll just take time and gradually save the animals. (just don't preach to non-vegs if they say no, then it's their decision)

and btw good job, it's a great decision.

Answer 9

First of all, congratulations.

Second of all, you can't actually "save" any, but for each vegetarian about a hundred animals aren't bred per year. I'm sure the number is probably higher for vegans.

Answer 10

Good for you!!! I am not sure of the answer to your question, but if you go to the PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) website they will send you a free "STARTER KIT" - plus they have lots of other great info! Click on Cruelty free living on top menu bar. GOOD LUCK!

http://www.peta.org/