Around 13% of Americans say they're vegetarians. As for the rest of us, we're literally eating meat by the ton. I say we need to get these numbers up, just to make the militant vegetarians angry.

(Photo illustration by Cate Gillon / Getty Images)
(Photo illustration by Cate Gillon / Getty Images)
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If you live to 80 and eat meat the whole time, you'll eat around 7,500 animals total. Here's how that breaks down:

  • 4,500 fish
  • 2,400 chickens
  • 80 turkeys
  • 30 lambs
  • 27 pigs
  • 11 cows
  • 400 more rabbits, ducks, geese, and other random sea animals

The 11 cows doesn't sound like a lot, but cows do produce a lot of meat; one cow has enough meat to produce about 2,000 quarter-pound hamburgers.

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