Showing posts with label grams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grams. Show all posts

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.