Beach Runner wrote:
> To see how much effect being vegan rather than vegetarian makes, how
> about some maths...
>
> A dairy cow produces about 6,000 litres of milk a year, and live for (I
> think) about 5 years. Suppose they have 8 male calves a year (that's a
> total guess), then (ignoring female offspring) we've got a total of 41
> slaughtered cows for every 30,000 litres of milk produced. So that's one
> death for every 731 litres of milk produced.
>
> Now, suppose you drink 2 litres of milk a week which is about 100 litres
> a year.
>
> So, with those figures, you would account for one cow's death every 7
> years 4 months by being vegetarian rather than vegan. I'm fairly sure my
> maths and logic there is correct. But hopefully someone can come up with
> more accurate figures, but I'm sure it will show that it really does
> make an immediate difference.
>
>
> And, as someone mentioned, there's also the ripple effect. Not sure
> about the maths on this one (as I don't know the rate of increase of
> veganism) but it's a bit like pyramid selling isn't it (for want of a
> better analogy!) - each vegan today could account for 10 vegans in 50
> years time (or 100 vegans in 100 years time...), so there is that aspect
> to it as well.
>
>
>
> Stay vegan!
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