I saw this video on how being vegetarian can positively effect you and your CO2 emissions.  A very large portion of the world is devoted to meat/livestock farms and it causes a very large amount of carbon dioxide and methane emissions,  since CO2 and methane are both greenhouse gasses they Impact climate change and our invioronment very negatively.  Going vegetarian seems small but if we can cut back on our meat intake it could really help our enviornment.

Link to video --> http://cleanvideosearch.com/media/actio … NUoAdXfA60

I personally am not vegetarian but i hope to eat meat less

so are you going vegetatrian?

The meat industry is also super unethical... Take a look at PETA's instagram..

There are ways to find ethically sourced meats, for example local markets are more expensive but also a lot better for you, the animals, and your carbon footprint.

Some places do have ethically sourced meat, yes. Send your evidence.

I'm not being sarcastic, I'd actually like to know more about ethically produced meat

Also I feel like looking at it from an ethics point of view it is better to eat higher meat yielding animals like beef and bison.  One cow or buffalo supplies a lot more meat than a chicken. Overall less lives are lost if we eat animals like them.

The meat industry is seriously messed up. There are other ways to find sources of proteins like there are in meat, but that doesn't necessarily mean we need to stop eating meat. It's a primal instinct for us but still, the meat industry just needs to be fixed, so not everyone needs to be vegetarian.

I agree with your point that cows and bison have more meat, but less lives will not be lost if we only eat them. Cows are mass procreated, (which stems from the dairy industry) so the same amount of meat is taken from all animals. Also, chickens are pumped so full of steroids that they have more meat than an average chicken

I agree with you Lindsay, but the meat industry most likely can't be helped.

if you source meat from local free range farms it's a lot better for the animals and for yourself

noadoron, even if people eat meat from local free range farms, their primary source of food is still grain, which will still pollute the atmosphere with methane. "Free Range" just means they're not pent up in a cage.

Going vegeterian is a good choice, but people who eat meat aren't gonna just stop, so we need a way to persuade them into doing it.

As a heavy meat eater, there is almost no persuading me to going full vegetarian, I feel as if I speak for a lot of people when  I say I am not just going to quit eating meat all together but even just one less steak a week or eating something healthier for a meal could be a good place to start when trying to persuade others into eating less meat.

in fact...sorry to say this...but some studies suggest that free range/organically raised cows actually produce more methane!  This depends a lot on the way the land is managed.

One difference in farming methods is what is done with the manure.  If it is allowed to fester in anaerobic pits (as in some big factory farms) that is another big source of methane.  But if all the manure is collected and used sustainably the methane can be recovered.

More info here: http://wapo.st/1B40w3P

For the footprint calculator we used data from a study that shows a small net cost in terms of footprint to organic meat, but it is complex and interesting:

'Organic: A Climate Saviour?' The foodwatch report on the greenhouse effect of conventional and organic farming in Germany
https://www.foodwatch.org/uploads/media … 009_01.pdf

Some meat is good. But I bet that McDonalds has a pretty bad carbon footprint. (Well, there manufactures)

As someone who eats meat quite often, i probably will never go vegetarian. But if we can just eat less, that would help. like if you eat meat 7 times a week, how about 5 times? if we can reduce the amount we eat, not necessarily not eat meat at all. Also wouldn't cows go endangered if we stopped farming them, sense we have been farming them for a while, they rely on us right?

An idea would be instead of eating chicken 2-3 times a week it could instead be 1-2 times a week.  I think this would lower your food levels on the carbon footprint.

maybe if we eat local meat we can have less of an impact.  Meat is something that is just human, it would be unnatural for every one to give it up.

Speaking as a vegetarian, i think it would help a lot if more people were vegetarian, but sadly i don't think that is very possible. Some people like meat and thats it, they won't stop eating meat.

Humans are omnivores by nature, so it'd be pretty hard to actually cut meat from everyone's diet. The food industry is so set in stone (especially in the US) that I don't believe it's even possible to make even one city vegan.

We don't need to completely erase meat from out diet, that would be impossible for some people, since they like it too much, we could simply give them alternative foods to eat to distract them from eating meat so much, but we can't cut it out completely. I am not vegetarian, nor do I eat meat every day of the week, but I simply eat about 1-3 times a week maybe. As long as we lower how much we eat it, we can still have a positive effect.

Meat is good fro you, as long as you don't consume large amounts every dang day. #McDonalds. If you erase meat from the world's diet, than the meat industry which creates billions of $$$$, than you have a big problem.

I agree with Sam and daemon. As natural omnivores it is only natural to consume meat and as it stands the economy surrounding meat is very large considering things such as significant fishery exports and beef exports that the U.S cherishes.