What is a “suffering footprint”? It’s a quantification of how much suffering an individual causes by consuming animal products (similar to the carbon footprint).
Estimates suggest someone eating the standard American diet for one year cause around 5 ½ years of suffering for animals.
In principle, boycotting animal products could significantly reduce this number. A true vegan would cause the least suffering with their food consumption. But in reality, true veganism and even vegetarianism are pretty rare. The majority of self-described vegetarians eat meat and the most popular ways that vegetarians and semi-vegetarians reduce their consumption of animal products, eating eggs, chicken and fish, actually cause a larger suffering footprint than some meat eating diets.
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