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.

Like I said, cutting out meat would be simply impossible, but cutting down on it is completely possible and we should try it. The economy rides on meat and fast food places, but those places are made to only really be consumed a couple times a week, no more than 3 I would say.

we shouldnt stop eating meat, its something we need to consume, but we can try to consume it less and eat more variety of vegetables and different foods.

I believe that we don't need to stop eating meat but instead cut down on how much we eat it and instead eat more vegetables and different food items.

I agree that people should cut down on their meat consumptions, because it can be very costly to the environment. However, for many people in America they cannot afford vegetables and fruits. For example, it costs a lot less to buy a cheeseburger from McDonalds rather than fruits and vegetables.

I agreed. I don't think we need to stop eating meat but we should cut down on them and try to eat more vegetable and organic stuffs.

I think going vegetarian is a really great choice. But I also think being vegetarian is expensive. How are low-income families going to be able to go vegetarian? Also, humans are omnivores how are we going to change that?

I would not be a vegetarian even though I would get paid for it.  Meat is in almost everything we eat and it would only be a problem to be a vegan.

I definitely agree with your statement. People should cut down on their meat intake because it is healthier for your body as well as the environment. No lie, going vegan is definitely better for the environment and your body as well.

I think it would be a great idea if more people went vegan/vegetarian. There are so many healthier options we could substitute in place of meat, such as lentils, spinach and almonds. By eating these foods regularly, we would be getting the vitamins we need without eating meat. Meat these days are injected with unhealthy chemicals and the animals are usually kept in very unhygienic enclosures. Consuming large amounts of meat on a regular basis also increases your risk of cancer and other illnesses. I was a heavy meat eater but after hearing stories of how bad meat is for your health and how badly they treat the animals, I’ve completely cut out red meat since 2016, and I only eat chicken about once a month.

I don't agree. I know that meat (red one the most) imply lots of CO2 and so on but if more people went vegetarian/vegan there would be more problems. I'm not saying we should eat red meat everyday, also to preserve our wealth, but eating vegetables and fuits only doesn't solve the problem.
Eating vegetarian (or vegan) isn't totally healthy because we were made omnivores for a reason: we need to eat like that, our body needs to eat both vegetables and meat. There are many nutrients that can be obtained just in meat.
There would be more greenhouses, that would get their impact, too. Industrial agriculture involves processing, packaging and trasportation for what was planted and we don't have just seasonal veggies/fruits in our shops, we're used to have exotic foods in our shops too. Growing fields of e.g. corn, or soy, would destroy animals' grass and ecosystems (every bird, turtle, worm or creatures that live in rivers,.. would die).
I think we should find the ri ght balance and appreciate everything that we have instead of wanting always more and more.
If someone is interested, I found this site useful: https://paleoleap.com/vegetarianism-bad-environment/

A vegetarian (or vegan) diet is the best option to adopt to reduce the CO2 emissions. Most of the acres used for agriculture in the world are used to cultivate the food that will become the fodder for animals. The cattle needs more food and more water everyday, so it's necessary to have more energy to consume and more surface arable, that very often are produced cutting down forests. So it's quite easy to understand, that if we stop eating meat we will need less fields to coltivate and the forests will have back a lot of space, but it will decrease the number of individuals of a lot of animal species.
An other important thing to consider is that the human being is not born as a meat eater. Some researches say, that physiologically and ethologically we are not so suitable to eat a lot of meat. All of the nutrients we need come from the vegetables, so eating meat is something we can renounce. The only problem is that eating meat is connected with cultures of a lot of people and societies and it isn't easy to erase radically this habit in short times, and with economics poi nts of view it will be quite hard too. Maybe starting to reduce a little bit in more time will be sure a better idea.

I think people should be vegetarian because animals have feelings too. And raising meat takes time, energy, and money. Why not just eat some easily made corn?