In order to reduce my carbon footprint I have decided to go vegan for one week. I officially started my seven days of a vegan diet today. I ate mostly fruits and vegetables, but I ate diary and bread which vegan diets do not allow. I did my research and am now prepared to eat the correct foods (mainly vegetables, fruits, and nuts) for the remainder of the week. It will definitely be a challenge for me, but I know that if I stick to eating these foods my carbon footprint will become less when I re-calculate.

For me the vegan diet is just unthinkable, first of all our bodies have not evolved for more than a thousand years just to start eating only vegetables and fruits, our diet also consists on proteins and our bodies have not yet adapted to just eating plant, and vegetables, our body does not process chlorophyll that well unlike, for example, cows or horses. We still have the need of eating proteins

That is a very good thought but in my opinion one week of going vegetarian will not impact your carbon footprint much at all. I think you would need to do this for a month or so but I understand this could be very hard. I know I couldn't do it so I applaud you for trying!

I think that this is a good thought as a start to impact you carbon footprint in a good way, A week might not effect your carbon footprint that much but a year surely would.

Dear Fernando, while it is true that we did not evolve to eat only vegetables and fruits, we also didn't evolve to eat the huge variety of foods (cooked and prepared in so many ways) that we do. Many many people have lived very healthy and long lives on a vegetarian and vegan diet (and quite a few cultures have been vegetarian -if not vegan- for thousands of years). We evolved as omnivores: we don't process plants as efficiently as herbivores like cows, but we don't process meats as efficiently as carnivores like lions. We evolved to eat both. Just because it is unthinkable for you to eat mostly or entirely a non-meat and non-dairy diet, doesn't mean you should discourage others from trying it.

…and as for one week not making a difference: one week is a great start! Then you can decide if you want to continue for a month or a year or more.

I think that is an interesting concept. Becoming a vegan for a week may help, however, for the best results it would be wise to try to do this every couple of weeks.

This is a cool idea to lower your footprint! If you really want to lower your footprint you could also do things like switch to eco-friendly lightbulbs or something else. I am sure that being vegan for a week could help your footprint, maybe not much but better than what it is now! Good luck on your week!

I think that its good for you going vegan for a week. I know that it would help my carbon footprint if I went vegan or even vegetarian for a week. But I don't think I could become a vegan at all because chicken taste too good just to give up. I know that there are tofu chicken and all of that but I just don't think it would work out for me, but if you can do it then thats great.

I think that is so cool to go vegan for a week! I love meat so much so going vegan would be difficult but I think I might try it sometime! Your carbon footprint will definitely decrease which will be so cool to see how much it decreases by. My food is lower than North Carolina's average because I love meat but we try to be careful of how much we eat. I think it is so good because we eat a lot of salad with fresh fruit.