Thank you for posting this. I've been vegetarian for 25 years and vegan for the last 16 years. A total of 41 years. According to the calculator I have saved 9.9 little piggies who are cute, smart, and want to live, 3 cows who like to snuggle and be hugged and nurse their wee calves, 1323 chickens who love to root for seeds and eat all the bad bugs in the garden. I have saved gazillions of gallons of water, thousands of pounds of CO2 emissions and about 51 oz of antibiotics. If we all stopped eating meat we could prevent most heart disease, some forms of cancer and diabetes. An extend the use of the limited resources we have on this planet. It's just logic. It's compassion. It's the right thing to do. For everyone's benefit.

This one doesn't really work for me for two reasons. 1, because I haven't eaten meat in more than 20 years and 2, because one of the main reasons I stopped eating meat was to help reduce the numbers of animals that are born purely to provide meat and the environmental effects that go with that. So, I hope that by not eating meat, I have caused fewer animals to be born in the first place.

I'm still not a vegetarian, but i am starting to feel guilty about eating meat...

Also vegan. Love this calculator. Very happy to be rid of the antibiotics.