Assuming the "Pythagoras" reference was unintentional (just a famous mathematician pulled out of a hat) makes this even funnier given Pythagoras was a notable proto-vegan:

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

Wait did Pythagoras even know about zero? Like iirc he’s wayy before standard numerals and zero didn’t start becoming mainstream in the west ‘till long after that right?

(Speaking of, it always blows my mind that someone was able to give a proof of the irrationality of the square root of 2 without even using numbers)

Also twice as much as an average meat eater would only make up for one vegan. He would have to eat millions of times the amount to make up for all the vegans.

Is this a coincidence or intentional? Pythagoras was a notable proto-vegan:

As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.

I always found this such a demented take, because like why are they so tilted by the idea of NOT eating meat? Do they truly believe that it's ethically defensible, or are they actually relishing the idea of participating in increasing the net suffering in the world?

(1x2)+0=2

If he is eating twice as much meat than before then the total meat consumption has doubled.

The correct quote from Maddox is "for every animal you don't eat, I'll eat two"