Leona: If the average consumption of eggs in the United States were cut in half, an estimated 5, 000 lives might be saved each year  Thomas: How can that be
That would mean that if people adopt this single change in diet for ten years, the population ten years from now will be greater by 50, 000 people than it otherwise would have been
For the average consumption of eggs to be cut by half, many individual consumers would have to cut their own consumption by much more than half.