How many animals lives have you saved/boosted as a guess?

[Mork]

Hard to make a strong impact isnt it?

Money talks, donating etc but how much of it goes to the ceo?

Saving lives individually doesn't happen very often, a rare occurrence.

Going without meat obviously saves lives but beyond that you seem to not have much power short of becoming a vet

I suppose getting alot of money is one of the best things you can do?

Hard to get up the life count any tips?

 

[silva]

Vegan Calculator - The Vegan Web Designer

 

[beancounter]

I know this is a vegan specific thread, but vegetarians contribute too. Especially those who are rather persistent...

Vegetarian Calculator - Calculate the impact of a meat free lifestyle

Vegetarian lifestyles require less resources like water, food, oil, contributes less CO2 to the atmosphere, and animals are not killed for their consumption

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[Lou]

I think it was PETA who estimated that a vegan saves about 100 lives a year. I couldn't find the breakdown but if i remember right that number included a lot of shellfish, fish, and chickens.

But let's turn your concern upside down. If I suggested that if you didn't change your lifestyle you would be responsible for an animal being killed, wouldn't you make the switch?

Also let's keep in mind that not only animals are saved when people go vegan. If everyone went vegan there would be 8 million less human deaths from avoidable diseases such as heart disease. And a savings of hundreds of millions of dollars in health care costs.

there would be more food for hundreds of millions more people.

And there would be fewer greenhouse gasses. Climate change is maybe the biggest threat to the world there is.

One of the things that I tell people all the time is that being vegan isn't necessarily about consequences - its about intent. I can't go around and point out a cow and say that cow is alive because of me. But I can say, i'm trying to keep animals alive and not destroy the environment.

some one estimated that there are 73 million vegans right now. So we can estimate that vegans are saving 73 Billion animal lives a year. Now i don't care how you slice it - that is a significant impact.




-https://www.peta.org/blog/many-animals-saved/
-https://www.peta.org/blog/new-study-suggests-everyone-went-vegan-save-8-1-million-human-lives-per-year/
-https://www.peta.org/blog/350-million-people-vegan-americans/
-https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/global-warming/

 

[Lou]

Vegan Calculator - The Vegan Web Designer

That is cool!!

 

[silva]

I know this is a vegan specific thread, but vegetarians contribute too. Especially those who are rather persistent...

Vegetarian Calculator - Calculate the impact of a meat free lifestyle

Vegetarian lifestyles require less resources like water, food, oil, contributes less CO2 to the atmosphere, and animals are not killed for their consumption

vegetariancalculator.com

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Vegetarians can get the short end of the stick. Whether you're willing to have a pizza slice at an office lunch once in a blue moon, an occasional ingredient in packaged things or have eggs and cheese every day you don't get distinguished. I have no issue with saying "mostly vegan" myself.
Even omnivores- designating even one day a week to plant based, or just having meat at one meal is something.

 

[Danielle]

I think it's more like I don't like that animals are slaughtered, so I don't want to contribute towards it.

 

[josephdelapaz]

You may also find interesting this Vegan Calculator, which includes not only animal lives saved but also resources like water, grain, CO2, animal waste and antibiotics... Let me know what you think and if there is anything you would like to add

Vegan Calculator: Animals & Resources Saved by Vegans | Positive Vegan

This Vegan Calculator helps you estimate how many animal lives and resources you've saved since going vegan (sources and explanation included).

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[Mr_Gentleman]

How many animal lives have I saved? None, because I have as little to do with animals as I possibly can. If ones injured I would maybe call someone up.
I have however saved a lot of insects. If you find one floating on water that you think has drowned, I find if you scoop them up with a bit of paper most of them dry themselves off and walk away after a few hours.
If you want to rescue an insect from sticky tape, put some drops of sticky stuff remover on the tape carefully with a tip of saturated paper and they walk away again free. Unfortunately I don't know if its bad for them but otherwise they have no chance.
These days I swat a few flies & mosquitos because they just want to spread germs and might be carrying covid. Sometimes I hoover up spiders if I cant see them, I don't really care because they're lil' murderers.