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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
I try to eat as little meat as possible but I can't give it up totally.
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Giving meat up altogether is a hard sell when many of the benefits can be gained by cutting back on portion sizes, having no meat some days and replacing meat with fish.
The number of "killings" cited by Jimbo may well be an underestimate:
"The average meat eating person eats 7,000 animals in their life time or 70 billion a year are killed for food"
If the average meat-eater lives for 70 years, then 7,000 animals in a lifetime is 100 per year. Multiply that by the number of humans - 7 billion - and up to 700 billion animals per year would be killed. Even allowing for not everyone being a meat-eater, you would have to kill, say, 500 billion per year.
Of course, there's a big difference between killing a sardine and slaughtering a cow...