4/15/09

Study : How Much Meat Do We Eat

I made some loose calculations about how much meat an average person eats in a lifetime,for a period of 70 years. Maybe I should have calculated how much meat meats a vegetarian in his/her lifetime.This is it,no more to say,just look at the results and tell me what you think.Eating machines,right?
70 years ~ 25 550 days
1.
Let's say that you eat a beef hamburger once every two days.
Let's say that your hamburger has 200 g beef.
Let's say that a cow weights 1000 kg.
So , 25 550 : 2 = 12 775 (days when you eat each day 200 g beef)
12 775 x 200 = 2 550 000 (grams of beef you eat in a lifetime)
2 550 000 g = 2550 kg
It seems that we eat only three cows in a lifetime.More or less , this depends as you probably realised.
2.
Let's say we eat an average of 300 grams of chicken meat a day.
Let's say that a chicken weights 2.5 kg.
So , 25 550 x 300 = 7 665 000(grams of chicken meat we eat in a lifetime)
7 665 000 g = 7665 kg
So,we eat an average of 3066 chickens in a lifetime.Believe me I eat more that that.I'm a chicken eater.Chickens fear me.
3.
Let's say that we eat as much pork as beef - 2550 kg.
Let's say that an average pig weights 100 kg.
So,we eat an average of 25 pigs in a lifetime.
4.Fish
Let's say we eat 200 g of fish a day.
Let's say a fish weights 1kg.
So,we eat an average of 5110 fishes in a lifetime


Please remember that this statistic is made by me,and taking into consideration my mathemathical abilities I'm pretty sure that they are not eloquent at all.Also I read somewhere that an average person eats 25 tonnes of food in his/her lifetime.


The average american eats 15 cows, 24 hogs, 900 chickens, 12 sheep and 1000 lbs of other assorted animals in their lifetime.
Source: U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture
Also if you eat 7 eggs in a week, you’ll consume 25 550 eggs in your lifetime.A lot.

7 comments:

  1. Think how much money we waste on those hamburger..damn

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  2. BlackSnow:Yeah,but better broke than hungry.

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  3. oh my god!think about how much we poop afterwards!

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  4. i don't eat meat,i'm a vegetarian

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  5. i like chicken too

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  6. what if someone else would grow humans in farms and eat us as stake?think about it.

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  7. Hey, if you eat 100g of beef, 300g chicken, 100g of pork, and 200g of fish every day, you need to have your head checked. And you sure aren't going to live 70 years.

    Sandy

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