The animals you have already spared
Pick the day you stopped eating animals. This counter runs in real time from per-capita slaughter data — about 59 animals a year for an average omnivorous diet — and shows the emissions, water and land that never got spent on your plate.
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Animals spared in 1 days
0.13
Counting up by one animal roughly every 8,916 minutes at this diet baseline.
Who they were
0.1
Chickens
0.0
Farmed & wild fish
0.0
Shellfish & crustaceans
0.0
Ducks
0.0
Turkeys
0.0
Pigs
0.0
Sheep & goats
0.0
Cattle
And everything else you kept
2 kg
CO₂e not emitted
≈ 1 litres of petrol unburned.
1 m³
Water saved
≈ 8 days of household water use.
5 m²
Land freed
≈ 0.00 football pitches.
1 kg
Grain left for people
≈ 3 plates of food.
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Since 2026-08-07 I've spared about 0 animals, 2 kg of CO2e and 1 m³ of water. Count yours:
Questions about the numbers
How is the number of animals spared calculated?
We take per-capita slaughter numbers from FAOSTAT food balance sheets and Fishcount's estimates for fish and shellfish, sum them to about 59 animals per person per year for an average omnivorous diet, and multiply by the time elapsed since your start date and by a diet-intensity factor you choose.
Does one person going vegan actually reduce the number of animals killed?
Yes, in expectation. Production responds to demand with an elasticity below one, so economists estimate that removing one animal's worth of demand prevents roughly 0.5 to 0.75 of an animal being farmed. This tool reports the demand you have withdrawn, which is the part you control.
Why do fish and shellfish dominate the count?
Aquatic animals are small, so a single serving can represent several individuals, and per-capita consumption is high. Fishcount estimates tens of billions of farmed fish and over a trillion wild-caught animals killed each year worldwide.
Where do the emissions, water and land figures come from?
Poore and Nemecek's 2018 Science analysis of 38,700 farms and the 2023 Nature Food study of 55,000 UK diets. A vegan diet cuts food-related emissions by roughly 75 percent, and land use by about 75 percent, relative to a high-meat diet.
Is my start date stored anywhere?
No. It stays in your browser's local storage so the counter is still running next time you visit. Nothing is sent to a server and there is no account.
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Sources: FAOSTAT food balance sheets (2022); Fishcount.org.uk per-capita fish and shellfish estimates; Poore & Nemecek, Science (2018); Scarborough et al., Nature Food (2023). Figures are global averages and deliberately conservative. Text and data on this page are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to veg.ac.