[amalgamated_inc]

The best way to reduce the number of animal deaths is actually to switch to beef exclusively.

An average head of cattle yields maybe 880lbs of usable meat + fat (https://beef.unl.edu/beefwatch/2020/how-many-pounds-meat-can...)

1lb of beef has around 1,100kcal. This differs depending on the protein/fat ratio of course, but let's just do a simple calculation.

An average person would have to eat about 2lbs of beef per day as the only source of food. This is actually quite common in the carnivore and zero-carb communities, people mostly report between 1.5lbs (lil' old ladies) and 3lbs (big, tall, strong people who work out a lot).

So one head of beef cattle can feed the average person for ~440 days, or a little over a year. That means that less than 1 animal needs to be killed per year for your entire nutritional needs.

Compare this to chicken. How many chickens do you need to eat per day? Probably 2 or more, since they're so lean. So you're at <1 death per year vs. several deaths per day.

I say, let's eat more beef.

[barbazoo]

> How many chickens do you need to eat per day?

Need? 0.

[amalgamated_inc]

Suggest an alternative then that kills fewer animals. (Hint: the grain and vegetables you eat kill way more than 1 per year with the rodents and insects that are being poisoned and sliced/diced by the farm equipment.)

[barbazoo]

Are you seriously suggesting that a plant based diet is just as bad because a very small number of animals accidentally get killed in the process but in an unrelated way?

The same animals die in the production of plant based food _used_ for the production of meat.

[amalgamated_inc]

> Are you seriously suggesting that a plant based diet is just as bad because a very small number of animals accidentally get killed in the process but in an unrelated way?

Yes

[barbazoo]

In that case, you're wrong.