By Anthony Marcusa / Source: Ecorazzi

While attempts to limit the consumption of meat often have to do with championing animal welfare and promoting health benefits, one group is going a different way. If numbers appeal to you, a group called the Vegetarian Calculator could sway your eating habits.

That’s because their website offerings quantifiable information with regards to how much meat the average person consumes over a lifetime of eating animals. According to the site, on average a person eats some 7,000 animals over the course of a lifetime.

The site break it down further: that’s about 11 cows, 27 pigs, 30 sheep, 80 turkeys, 2,400 chickens, and 4,500 fish.

Conversely, the website allows you to input the number of months or years you’ve been a vegetarian to calculate how many animals you’ve ‘saved,’ while also reporting on the sheer pounds of meat you didn’t eat as well as the pounds of CO2 not released into the air as a result of abstaining. The site is running on data from a USDA report from 2008.

It’s a fun tool to play around with, though the results might be general. The numbers seem to fall in line with the book Ninety-Five: Meeting America’s Fared Animals in Stories and Photographs, which suggest that 95 is the average number of animals spared each year by a vegan diet.

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