UDDERLY Bullocks! AMAZING We scoff 13 cows in a lifetime... plus 2,900 chickens and 35 pigs!

BRITS munch through nearly

17,000 animals in a lifetime. That means, with an average life expectancy of 83, we are scoffing

202 creatures every year. Vegetarians claim we eat 13 cows, while bacon, sausages and the odd pork chop add up to 35 pigs. And we eat 38 lambs or sheep. But what really boosts the numbers is the huge amount of smaller animals we munch through, with

7,000 fish, 6,500 shellfish such as crab and prawns and 2,900 chickens ending up on our plates.

Most of us eat turkey at Christmas only, yet we average 120 of those.

Facebook group Vegetarian Calculator states: “Vegetarians use less resources like water, food, oil, contribute less CO2, and animals are not killed for their consumption.

Raising livestock contributes more to global warming than automobiles and is the second leading cause of global warming behind industrial pollution.”

But the British Meat Processors Association said: “The UK’s natural environment makes it one of the most sustainable places in the world to produce red meat as we have an abundance of rain and pastureland.

“Most of this land is only suited to rearing livestock as it won’t support growing crops.

“So, British-reared beef and lamb has a much smaller environmental footprint than meat produced using intensive livestock farming practices in countries like Brazil, where large areas of rainforest are cleared.”