A university, in animals
What does an institution buy in a year?
A campus is concrete and people. But its food procurement, expressed honestly, is also animals. Scroll down to see one university's footprint translated.
An average university.
Annual food spend
$8.2M
Meals served
3.4M
Beef purchased
180,000 lb
Seafood purchased
45,000 lb
These are line items. They translate into something else.
Translated into animals.
~ 350
cows
~ 12,000
fish
🐔
~ 50,000
chickens
Per year. From one institution.
The chain
A single institution accounts for tens of thousands of lives a year.
Numbers above are illustrative for the prototype, not sourced. Real procurement data, conversion factors, and species-level estimates would plug in here. The visual chain — building → dollars → animals — is the point.
1 university / year
≈ 350 cows + 12,000 fish + 50,000 chickens
illustrative figures, prototype only