My area is still 100% over it was last year...

Your economics analysis is ignoring the price factor.

If a significant amount of people didn’t eat meat 1 day a week, demand goes down, price goes down, many people will buy more meat, demand stays more or less the same, supply stays the same.

You'd be shocked how many people would barbecue everyday if they could.

Does that include the bugs, rodents, and other small animals that get killed during the harvesting process?

In order for one animal to eat, another animal must die. It’s the circle of life. And that’s ok.

I have often wondered... if everyone went vegan, would anyone keep livestock alive? In the case of cattle, there ancestor is extinct... so would these animals just go extinct?

And you're resorting to insults instead of making a point.

If you have a high tolerance for utter ignorance good for you. You’re a better person than me.

You said this

> Either way, that's 1 less cow that's alive.

In response to this

> Less animals will be bred to meet demand. So they’re not killed.. they’ll just for the most part never live.

That’s beyond stupid. I’m sorry, but I feel like you’re being dumb on purpose. You’re arguing in bad faith and I’m not wasting any more time.

Geez, the unreasonable anger is strong with this one.

A major weakness of the analysis is limiting it to domesticated fowl and mammals. Commerical fish and shellfish provide meat as well. But the most individual animals eaten by people are insects and some other small invertebrates. Not knowingly, but those animals are heading down people's guts and need to be included in the answer to the OPs headline question.

If you're going to argue with me. Keep it to one thread. As I said in my other reply. It's not about supply and demand. This chart says eating less meat will save animals.

It will not.

I never said that. I'm saying either way you aren't saving a cow.

That's the key word. No cow is being "saved". Which is what this chart is saying.

So now a 1 cow not being bred for suffering and being killed is the same as 1 cow being bred for suffering and being killed. Good lord, how do you get through life with such a lack of common sense.

Pretty normal for any Bitcoin bear market 💪 I’m actually amazed at the lack of recent volatility and capitulation

That’s obtuse as hell. The current supply yes, but you and I both know that future supply would decrease. I don’t understand why you feel the need to push against commonly known supply and demand theory. The mental gymnastics you people are going through. Just fcking eat meat if you like it, but don’t try to fool other people.

Whatever your opinion is on that I don’t care. My point is, your comment about eating less meat not changing the supply and animals getting killed anyway, couldn’t be more wrong. If you want to eat meat because it’s tasty, go ahead, but don’t make up easily debunked tales.

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I’ve eaten way more than 7 ducks and I’m not that old.

Can you add average likes to the chart?

Either way, that's 1 less cow that's alive.

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If everyone went vegan tomorrow, billions of animals would be killed off for no reason.

Can’t grok the “somebody’s got to do it” rationale. If more folks stopped wanting, less creatures would need to die unnaturally and prematurely. You cannot get through this life without causing pain but you can try to minimize the totals and be conscious of and grateful for what you consume. Less is more. Now to practice what I preach.

No one wants to eat less meat, at least not in America. The only thing that will get a significant amount of people to stop eating meat maybe 1 day a week is the cost of meat rising.

It makes a backwards sense for a large mass of people over a long period of time. Less animals will be bred to meet demand. So they’re not killed.. they’ll just for the most part never live.

Agreed but as other have said, you're not "saving" any animals by cutting out meat like this chart implies.

Cutting down on meat consumption isn't a bad thing, it can improve your health, but the animals on those farms are still going to die.

It's not like you skipping that hamburger is going to give some cow a happy retirement.